The United States should update
its national vaccine plan, the Institute of Medicine suggests, and devote more money to, among other things, developing one - shot vaccines to cover all strains of influenza and developing a national strategy to reassure wary citizens about the safety of vaccines.
Not exact matches
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and USAID should conduct a thorough global threat analysis of rising TB levels and execute a
plan of action for developing new diagnostics, drugs,
vaccines, and delivery systems.
Last year the
National Institutes of Health announced
plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and
vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.
Plans are now taking shape for an elaborate testing program of the new H1N1
vaccines in the United States, funded in part by the
National Institutes of Health and carried out at the
Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units, a network of clinical centers around the country.
The U.S.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week canceled
plans for a large clinical trial of an experimental
vaccine to combat the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The
National Vaccination
Plan for 2016 — 18 (PNPV) would instantly make Italy a European front - runner in vaccination, but experts have questioned the need for several of the
vaccines, and some suspect the hand of industry behind the government's new enthusiasm.
Researchers
plan to assess the new modified antigen against other candidates in advanced strep throat
vaccine tests in nonhuman primates beginning later this year in Atlanta, Georgia, funded by the
National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia.
«The biggest hurdle will be conducting safety trials in the most important target population — women who are pregnant or
planning pregnancies,» said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the
National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and president of the Sabin
Vaccine Institute.
More information about the
vaccine is available from
Planned Parenthood and the
National Cancer Institute.