Sentences with phrase «new vaccine against»

Currently a new vaccine against flu is developed every year, in an attempt to respond to recent common strains in circulation, including those which cross into humans from other species.

A new paper published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has reported on a multicentre trial to test the safety and clinical efficacy of a new vaccine against grass pollen allergy in patients with grass pollen — induced rhinitis and controlled asthma.

NEW DEHLI — On Monday, India opened a $ 12 million, government - backed laboratory whose mission is to create a new vaccine against HIV.

Responding to a call for help from African ministers of health after one of the worst epidemics of meningitis ever seen, WHO and PATH partnered to form MVP in 2001, which for over 14 years led the development, licensure, and introduction of a new vaccine against meningitis A.

Rewinding skin cells back to their origins in the womb could provide a powerful new vaccine against multiple types of cancer.

New vaccines against pneumococcus (pneumococcal conjugate vaccines [PCVs]-RRB- and against rotavirus were recently introduced and each showed great impact on the disease it was addressed to reduce.

The largest corporate - funded medical trials in history indicate that two new vaccines against rotavirus, a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, are both effective and safe.

Department researchers are developing new vaccines against these viruses and in identifying small molecular weight compounds for use as antivirals.

New vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis and HIV are currently in field trials in the developing world.

Zoetis Inc. has started shipping Vanguard CIV H3N2 / H3N8, the company's newest vaccine against canine influenza virus.

Thus, a second priority should be to include a fast scale - up of the initiation of new vaccines against diarrhea and pneumonia among children.

Not exact matches

These include new medicines and vaccines that represent our best hope in the fight against disease.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

The existing vaccine will not protect at all against the new organism, therefore vaccination will be totally ineffective as a means of prevention.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The Westchester County Health Department is offering residents the opportunity this month to get free flu shots, along with vaccines to protect against six other diseases at its Yonkers and White Plains clinics.

This genome could provide a comprehensive understanding of how treatments against parasitic worms work and point to further new treatments and vaccines.

Together with researchers at the CNRS, the group has demonstrated the efficacy of RNA - based vaccines produced using the new method against plant virus infections.

They hope to create a human model that could help speed up the development of new drugs and vaccines against the disease, which sickens millions of people and kills thousands each year.

But rather than dashing all hopes for an AIDS vaccine, the trial has heartened some researchers, who see new clues in the battle against the fatal illness.

An international team of scientists have designed a new generation of universal flu vaccines to protect against future global pandemics that could kill millions.

The new vaccine Gardasil protects against the cancers caused by both HPV types.

In addition to protecting against 80 percent of cervical cancers, the new 9 - Valent human papillomavirus vaccine, which includes seven cancer causing HPV - types, has the potential to protect against nearly 19,000 other cancers diagnosed in the United States, including anal, oropharyngeal and penile cancers.

«If you're going to test a new vaccine in a specific place, you should look at the local strains first and see if your vaccines are effective against the local strains people are catching,» he said.

The team claims its work, funded by Tonix, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, could lead to a safer, more effective vaccine against smallpox.

Protection against the disease pertussis, or whooping cough, doesn't appear to be as strong with the currently administered vaccine when compared with the older version administered up until the 1990s, according to a new study in Pediatrics.

«It was not known whether any of these vaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virusvaccines could provide protection against the new outbreak West African Makona strain of Ebola Zaire currently circulating in Guinea,» said John Eldridge, Chief Scientific Officer - Vaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virusVaccines at Profectus Biosciences, Inc. «Our findings show that our candidate vaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virusvaccines provided complete, single dose protection from a lethal amount of the Makona strain of Ebola virus.»

The method is relatively new, but far bacteria - based vaccines have proven effective: A seasonal flu vaccine produced by VaxInnate successfully protected humans in clinical trials, and the company's recently tested swine flu vaccine immunized mice against the virus.

Understanding what combination of mutations could transform H5N1 into a human pandemic virus gives epidemiologists a leg up on preparing countermeasures; they can, for example, test existing vaccines against the new strain.

A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.

New research, led by University of Southampton biological scientist Dr Hannah Siddle, is aiming to develop an effective vaccine against an infectious cancer that is eradicating the Tasmanian devil, the world's largest remaining marsupial carnivore.

Researchers hope that the insights they are gleaning from the structure will open new doors to drug and vaccine intervention against HIV.

Vaccines against the new strain were developed and rolled out across the world from September to December 2009.

«While awaiting development of new vaccines that will provide longer - lasting protection against pertussis, we should consider alternate Tdap immunization strategies for adolescents.»

Babies and young children often get the new vaccine to protect against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough).

Vaccination rates for a critical booster shot tripled after clinics began using electronic prompts alerting them of patients needing the Tdap vaccine that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.

Friedman and his team, therefore, designed their new vaccine to induce an immune response against not only gD2 but also two other viral glycoproteins, gC2 and gE2.

Professor Ajit Lalvani from the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, who led the study, said: «New strains of flu are continuously emerging, some of which are deadly, and so the Holy Grail is to create a universal vaccine that would be effective against all strains of flu.»

The new «trivalent» vaccine induces antibodies against three different parts of the virus, including two components that normally help HSV2 evade immune attack.

«That's further evidence that BamE may be a new vaccine target against N. gonorrhoeae,» Sikora said.

High - dose influenza vaccine is 24 percent more effective than the standard - dose vaccine in protecting persons ages 65 and over against influenza illness and its complications, according to a Vanderbilt - led study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

«What is new about this is we have developed a vaccine against dust - mite allergens that hasn't been used before,» says Aliasger Salem, professor in pharmaceutical sciences at the UI and a corresponding author on the paper.

The first live - attenuated Zika vaccine still in the development stage completely protected mice against the virus after a single vaccination dose, according to new research from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Instituto Evandro Chagas at the Ministry of Health in Brazil.

New Scientist echoed the point in an editorial: «If the purpose of the Microbiological Research Establishment is to learn to make vaccines and devise other measures to protect the country against man - made epidemics — just as we try to protect ourselves against influenza or measles — then there is every reason to bring the establishment under the Ministry of Health» («Porton — the infection spreads», 30 May 1968).

«New insight in quest for single vaccine against multiple flus.»

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say a new candidate vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) made with a weakened version of the virus shows great promise at fighting the disease, the leading cause of hospitalization for children under the age of one in the U.S.

The new vaccine could arrive too late, not reach enough people, or not defend against the circulating virus for the following reasons:

«Vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus shows promise in early trial: Researchers describe a new approach to developing RSV vaccines, reporting promising early results in young children.»

A VACCINE against the Mexican swine flu sweeping the world is likely to arrive too late for most people, vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high - level industry meetings thiVACCINE against the Mexican swine flu sweeping the world is likely to arrive too late for most people, vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high - level industry meetings thivaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high - level industry meetings this week.

«This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make rapid modifications and improvements,» says Daniel Anderson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

An experimental vaccine against the MERS virus triggers immune protection, a new study finds.