Sentences with phrase «test effective vaccines»

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We can't test the efficacy of the flu vaccine because everyone knows it's effective.

Not only would the new method, tested only in mice, be more convenient but also more effective than the flu shot or nasal spray, according to a study at the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul.

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.

«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 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.

The concern was that researchers have tested other vaccines given to children beforehand, to ensure that they're both safe and effective, but the anthrax vaccine never has been given to children.

Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

However, the survey found that most Americans are unclear about the availability of tests to diagnose Zika and whether or not preventative vaccines and effective medicines exist to treat it.

If the vaccine also proves safe and effective in subsequent tests in humans, it might be possible to mount a containment strategy similar to that used in the past against smallpox.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

So far, the researchers have only tested the 3D vaccine in mice, but have found that it is highly effective.

They will also test whether antivirals and vaccines developed since SARS to treat other coronaviruses are effective.

In this way, the effect of vaccines or drugs (for example) can be tested: the more effective the active ingredient is, the smaller the number of cells that are destroyed by the viruses and the lower the measured resistance change will be.

In this study the researchers tested how effective the long - term protection of the vaccine was.

An Australian researcher has helped identify the kind of human trial that is most effective for testing Ebola vaccines.

investigational vaccine - a vaccine that has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for experimental testing in humans, but has not yet been proven effective.

As demonstrated by the breadth of clinical trial involvement shown above, CCIR members are testing the utility of immune checkpoint blockade in lymphoma (shown by Dr. Allison to be effective against melanoma), genetic engineering in cell therapy (e.g., CD19, CXCR2, TGF - β DNR), and TLR agonists or IL - 2 in vaccine formulations as well as some novel combination therapies, such as the infusion of tumor - reactive lymphocytes from HLA - matched donors who were vaccinated with a lymphoma idiotype.

Whitehead and the other researchers said that in the case of dengue, the testing was warranted because they knew that the vaccine appeared to be effective at preventing dengue 1, 3 and 4 viruses through previous testing but needed to learn more about its impact on dengue 2 before proceeding to larger trials that could take three to 10 years and cost tens of millions of dollars.

The development of a safe and effective vaccine takes many years and needs to go through many different stages of testing, including work on cells, testing on animals and finally clinical trials on humans.

In the new issue of IAVI Report we wrote about how researchers at the AIDS Vaccine 2010 conference in Atlanta discussed the limited window of opportunity for conducting clinical trials to test partially effective HIV prevention strategies, including HIV vaccine candidates and oral or topical antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in combiVaccine 2010 conference in Atlanta discussed the limited window of opportunity for conducting clinical trials to test partially effective HIV prevention strategies, including HIV vaccine candidates and oral or topical antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in combivaccine candidates and oral or topical antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), in combination.

In June, the Scripps Research Institute published their work on a similar vaccine that was found to be effective in mice, as well as rhesus monkeys, and other opioid vaccines are also being developed and tested in order to address the growing epidemic.

Overall, this study both identifies specific antigen combinations for high - priority clinical testing and establishes a generalizable approach that is more likely to produce effective vaccines.

The vaccine, designed for testing in Thailand where clade B and recombinant E / A HIV predominates, was found 31 % effective in preventing HIV infection among Thai volunteers.

The coming year will see the widespread testing of the first effective vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes the most deadly type of malaria.

You can really open your vet's eyes to safer and more effective puppy vaccination programs by paying for titer tests and investing in monovalent vaccines...

Your vet can also do a titers test on your dog for certain vaccines to determine if he still has protection from his last vaccination; he won't need another dose until that protection is no longer effective.

Some vaccines claim to be 100 - percent effective, but the test procedures are not true to life.

What's different about this variant is not that the vaccine isn't effective against it, and not that adult dogs can get it, too (they can get older strains of parvo, too, but incidence is much lower than in puppies because adult dogs are easier to vaccinate effectively), but that that virus has characteristics that make it harder to diagnose with the currently standard tests.

Fluvac Innovator ® vaccines are the most trusted equine influenza vaccines and help provide your horse with broad protection against newly emerging and conventional equine influenza virus strains as well as equine herpesvirus (EHV 1 and EHV 4).4 - 10 Zoetis regularly tests Fluvac Innovator to ensure its vaccine continues to be effective against emerging EIV isolates.

Fortunately, the prevalence of FeLV in cats has decreased significantly in the past 25 years since the development of an effective vaccine and accurate testing procedures.

However, the development of effective vaccines and readily accessible tests (to identify infected cats) have together significantly reduced the prevalence (frequency) of infection with this virus, although it remains an important disease.

The HPV vaccine for example is roughly 20 % to 50 % effective but cervical cancer has been declining for decades due to PAP smear testing.