Sentences with phrase «effective vaccine for»

While scientists continue to work on creating a safe, effective vaccine for FIV, current recommendations are to limit your cat's exposure to other cats that may be infected.

Since 2003, racing industry organizations have committed nearly $ 300,000 to scientific research aimed at developing a more effective vaccine for kennel cough, a common respiratory disease affecting virtually all dog breeds.

Fortunately, there is a very effective vaccine for this deadly virus.

There is currently a particularly effective vaccine for dogs that have not yet been exposed to the illness, but dogs that have already been infected with the virus face a much different road of treatment.

Though these particular vaccine regimens are not intended for the clinic, the results suggest that effective vaccines for MERS could be developed from the Spike protein, says study coauthor Barney Graham, a vaccinologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md..

Progress towards the development of highly effective vaccines for malaria has been frustratingly slow, but a distinctive bright spot for malaria vaccine and immunology researchers is the availability of human experimental models of P. falciparum - infection and malaria immunity.

I currently work at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which has opened my eyes to the need for more safe and effective vaccines for an array of diseases.

Not exact matches

Although the vaccine is highly effective, it can have adverse side effects for about one in 100,000 people and kills one in a million.

The same vaccine for cholera is also effective against ETEC, and certain vaccines are available for children as young as two.

But not all vaccines are effective or recommended for children and infants.

Note: The CDC and AAP do not recommend the nasal spray flu vaccine (FluMist) for the 2016 - 2017 season because it isn't effective.

Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.

Many studies have been conducted and the results consistently show that the flu vaccine is safe and effective for children.

Like all vaccines, «anti D' is not 100 per cent effective in all cases, however, it can help protect the health of future pregnancies for many women.

A well conducted study published in the Italian medical journals in June 2007 demonstrated that the daily intake of Colostrum can be 3x more effective than the flu vaccine for providing protection.

Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein says vaccines are among the most successful and cost - effective public health tools available for preventing disease and death.

There is an effective vaccine available for horses recommended by the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP).

«Vaccines are among the most successful and cost - effective public health tools available for preventing disease and death.

The researchers are currently planning a follow - up study which will test whether a flu vaccine is more effective for the elderly when combined with brief use of Losmapimod.

By identifying why skin immunity declines in old age, a UCL - led research team has found that an anti-inflammatory pill could help make vaccines more effective for elderly people.

Current vaccines are effective, but are unsuitable for people with compromised immune systems, including people with HIV.

«What that suggests is that this approach really gives us broad spectrum protection, and could serve as a basis for an effective pre-pandemic vaccine.»

Additional experiments showed that the vaccine was durable, effective for at least 6 months, and that it worked well in older mice.

Fortunately, a vaccine for yellow fever is readily available and effective.

To date, only six patients (including Menezes) for whom the vaccination strategy failed have survived, the first was 6 year - old Matthew Winkler from Ohio, who was bitten by a rabid bat in 1970 and developed symptoms after receiving a full course of the vaccine (prior versions of the rabies vaccine were not as effective as current formulations).

Dr. David Cavanagh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «There is a desperate need for an effective vaccine, which can be made easily in large quantities, to protect against this devastating disease.

«The matching process is not a perfect science, therefore, in some flu seasons, the vaccine available in the fall is not a good match for the circulating virus strains and is less effective,» said senior author David Weiner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Vaccine and Immune Therapy Center at The Wistar Insvaccine available in the fall is not a good match for the circulating virus strains and is less effective,» said senior author David Weiner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Vaccine and Immune Therapy Center at The Wistar InsVaccine and Immune Therapy Center at The Wistar Institute.

This fashion faded in the 1960s as effective treatments, such as vaccines and antibiotics, became available and people became aware that sun exposure and sunburn during childhood were strong risk factors for developing skin cancer in later life.»

He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.

Although Merck's vaccine will be marketed only for cervical cancer, preliminary evidence suggests it may also be effective against penile, anal, and vulvar cancers and even certain cancers of the head and neck.

We hope our research can get us closer to having effective flu vaccines for any age.»

«However, the promising results of this trial lay the foundations for the development of a more cost - effective, clinically - practical vaccine technology that could deliver similar outcomes for patients.

There is no proven treatment for smallpox and our vaccines, while effective, are in short supply.

An effective vaccine against the virus that causes genital herpes has evaded researchers for decades.

For example, a study just out in The Lancet, funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and focused on Medicare patients, found that the high - dose vaccine was 22 percent more effective at preventing flu - related hospital admissions.

Thirty years of struggle and research have led to dozens of treatments for HIV / AIDS — although both a cure and an effective vaccine remain elusive

A research team at The University of Texas at El Paso is one step closer to developing an effective human vaccine for cutaneous leishmaniasis, a tropical disease found in Texas and Oklahoma, and affecting some U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But if you're searching for that most elusive of medical prizes — a wholly effective flu vaccine — you may not feel like celebrating.

The rise is being met with a hunt for an effective opioid vaccine.

The eradication initiative chose OPV, rather than the original Salk vaccine made of killed virus (inactivated, or IPV), for good reason: it's cheap and effective.

Other scientists are using multi-omic approaches for preventive medicine, for example, to be more effective and efficient in vaccine development.

Developed with feedback from Parkland parents to explain the value of the cancer - fighting HPV vaccine in a culturally sensitive manner, the brochure was effective for Hispanic parents only.

The mRNA vaccine approach has other advantages, Weissman added: «If a vaccine is effective after just a single immunization, the infrastructure needed for its administration can be much simpler.

But there's an international push for a multi-front war on malaria, ranging from cheap and effective bed netting to the development of a vaccine.

An effective vaccine is urgently needed for women of childbearing age and travelers to areas where the virus has been reported.

These vaccines, however, are not effective against viruses — so one solution is selecting parent fish with virus - resistant traits to use as broodstock for salmon egg production.

Meanwhile, research continues at St. Jude and elsewhere to develop more effective flu vaccines, particularly for high - risk groups, including the elderly, pregnant women and obese individuals.

«If this research is borne out in future studies, we could be less than a decade away from a safe and effective live - attenuated vaccine for RSV.»

He adds that the findings, which are published in the online 26 September issue of Nature Medicine, may be applicable to other infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, for which no highly effective vaccine exists.

Learning more about the new strains could help public health officials to determine which drugs might be effective and to design new vaccines for the next flu season, which will likely include strains that are now circulating.