Sentences with phrase «use of vaccines as»

After establishing sound immunity during the first month of a pet's life, we at South Boulder Animal Hospital assess your pet's risk factors and will recommend an appropriate health care plan with the judicious use of vaccines as necessary.

The use of vaccines as evidence of per se damages are likely to crop up in future cases following Peterson.

Not exact matches

To find the cheapest place to get the vaccine, Cheapism.com checked prices at six of the country's largest pharmacy chains, as well as Costco and Sam's Club, which are known for low prices and allow non-members to use their pharmacies.

The position of parents who use such vaccines is not the same as that of the manufacturers: there are differing areas of responsibility.

Raising organic meat is far more than just making sure animals are free ranging and grass fed, it's equally about producing cattle without synthetic growth hormones, limiting vaccine use, not using routine antibiotics, breeding using natural methods, stress free weaning that allows for the ethological needs of mothers and young, access at all times to unfiltered sunlight and not using electric prodders as a routine management method.

However, some of the vaccines given, such as one for hepatitis, a disease contracted from intravenous needle use and intercourse, are ones that babies are not at high risk of contracting.

Encourage the use of inactivated influenza vaccine when feasible for children aged 6 to 23 months, as well as for their close contacts and caregivers.

The safety of the vaccine has been established in large clinical trials and will be continually monitored as it comes into wider use,» Ed Yong, health information manager at the charity told politics.co.uk

Many Cuban accomplishments of this sector are well known; for example Cuba produces widely used vaccines for diseases such as meningitis B and hepatitis B, among others.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications already available to treat opioid addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid addictions.

But the Yemeni government, with the help of a Saudi - led coalition, is battling Shiite Houthi rebels backed by Iran and there were concerns over whether the vaccine could be used effectively as battles raged in parts of the country, and whether administering it might distract health workers from treating patients, a cornerstone of epidemic response.

The agency has ongoing research examining the effectiveness of drugs such as methadone, buprenorphine, and naltrexone that are used to wean people off of stronger opioids, as well as research developing alternatives such as vaccines and transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat opioid addictions.

Plague infects a handful of humans and domesticated animals each year as well, and the team is looking into using the vaccine in areas where humans spend time, like national parks.

A DNA vaccine's tolerizing effect could potentially be used to combat autoimmune diseases — such as some forms of diabetes and arthritis — in which the immune system attacks and destroys its own tissues.

As part of their study, the researchers collected tweets that mentioned measles - mumps - rubella vaccine and classified their sentiment using artificial intelligence computer programs.

After several days of incubation the eggs are opened and the virus is removed, purified and used to make the vaccine, as a 2004 Scientific American article points out.

In addition to a comprehensive study of their use in vaccines, this article summarizes the benefits and challenges associated with the use of these polymer systems as adjuvants.

Kristien Van Reeth, of Belgium's Ghent University, and collaborators are comparing different vaccines and vaccination strategies in swine, which are used as a model for humans.

The results from the study could be used to help public health officials to plan a more effective response to future pandemics, such as rolling out vaccines at a much earlier time and targeting specific types of vaccines at different age groups.

After years of speculation about the promise of cancer vaccines as a way to use the immune system against tumors, the United States will soon see its first cancer vaccine hit the market.

As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the virus it is supposed to fight

Last summer, she lost her job as European correspondent for Renewable Energy World, an online publication, after filing charges with the F.B.I. against the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and several top U.S. government officials, claiming they are part of a plot to depopulate the United States using tainted H1N1 flu vaccines.

It is likely that medical interventions in the past few decades, such as the use of pneumonia and flu vaccines and decreased smoking helped reduce ear infection incidences.»

«Now that we know the mice can be vulnerable to Zika infection, we can use the animals to test vaccines and therapeutics — and some of those studies are already underway — as well as to understand the pathogenesis of the virus,» said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University.

1) Facilitate safe off - label use of existing vaccines — Support collaboration between the zoological community and conservationists in the field to determine the safety as well as efficacy of existing distemper vaccines that could be, at a minimum, administered opportunistically to endangered wild carnivores whenever they are being handled (e.g. during radio - collaring exercises or when being translocated to mitigate human - wildlife conflict).

This vaccine uses an inactive herpes virus (stripped of its viral genes) to transport a small amount of Aß as well as another protein called interleukin - 4 that may help prevent brain inflammation.

Others worry that news about the vaccine might lead some to be less vigilant about more proven methods of prevention, such as using condoms.

Others tackle bigger issues, such as drug and vaccine safety and the use of stem cells for drug discovery.

«Vaccines should not be viewed as a silver bullet that can subdue cholera in Haiti but wider use of them, such as in campaigns targeting particularly vulnerable populations, can play a meaningful role in protecting people from illness and death.»

The idea of using messenger RNA molecules as vaccines has been around for about 30 years, but one of the major obstacles has been finding a safe and effective way to deliver them.

A company called Virxsys, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is resurrecting the long - abandoned idea of using a weakened version of HIV as a vaccine.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

Gad Berdugo, CEO of EpiVax Oncology, says that such therapeutic vaccines could be used in combination with checkpoint inhibitors or, potentially, as single agents.

As another paper published yesterday, this one in Science Express, emphasizes yet again, widespread use of a vaccine could have a powerful impact against the H1N1 virus — if it arrived early enough and was widely used.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.

The vaccine, the only one that uses mosquitoes» bodies as bioreactors, had fully protected only two out of 44 volunteers from malaria.

Before pertussis vaccines came into use in the 1930s, the infection killed about 4,000 Americans (mostly infants) a year — 10 times as many as the number of people who died annually from measles and 12 times more than died from smallpox.

MenAfriVac ®, which is manufactured by the Serum Institute of India Private Ltd., was introduced as an improvement over older polysaccharide vaccines, which can only be used after epidemics have started, do not protect the youngest children or infants, and provide only short - term protection.

But as they were trying to develop a particular vaccine that would have taken advantage of that, they found that the people who took the vaccine got horrible diarrhea, and it was a counter indication for using that vaccine.

Thus, as Americans have expanded their sexual repertoire, as an October study from The Journal of Sexual Medicine highlighted, prevalence of HPV can sweep quickly through a population — especially one that is unprotected by a vaccine or consistent condom use.

«We have vaccines that can prevent the disease, and we use the same vaccine as a kind of treatment after a bite, but it only works if the virus hasn't progressed too far.

Using this approach as a template, researchers could substitute other types of antibodies and vaccines to target different tumors.

The U.K. government also noted that «affected African countries will have the primary role of authorising or allowing use of investigational vaccines» and said «buy in» from those communities about the clinical trials must be obtained as soon as possible.

«To take children who are in need of vaccines to prevent some disease that could kill them and use that as a front for something else is unconscionable,» says Paul Offit, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

In a previous study, investigators at the Cancer Institute showed that using a vaccine treatment for bladder and breast cancer tumors in laboratory models resulted in a reversal of the traditional immune blockade, as well as the development of tumor specific immunity throughout the body.

As other scientists test whether using a vaccine will start an immune attack on Globo H, Raines says, «we are probing a different type of immunity.

The bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, has changed in Australia — most likely in response to the vaccine used to prevent the disease — with a possible reduced effectiveness of the vaccine as a result, a new study shows.

Now Joseph Wu of Stanford University, California, and his team have found that stem cells can be used as a vaccine to help the immune system recognise such change.

Wessely, like many researchers in the field, believes that Gulf War illness arose from a combination of the stress of war, the use of experimental vaccines, and possibly exposures to environmental hazards such as oil - well fires.