Not exact matches
The purpose of the visit was to urge the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services to double - down on efforts to fully implement new laws, passed by Congress
last year, that Schumer's office says will significantly increase research,
vaccine development and treatment.
Based on our knowledge of the flu virus and the
human immune system, we can use computers to design the components of a
vaccine that gives much broader and longer -
lasting protection.»
Last year alone, the US Department of Health and
Human Services allocated $ 400 million to three centres for producing
vaccines against potential bioweapons.
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.
Last year the FDA approved Gardasil, a
vaccine effective against four strains of
human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause 90 percent of genital warts and 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer.
When the team injected the
vaccine into the skin of macaque monkeys, the reaction was similar to that in
humans, but when injected into the bloodstream, the
vaccine provided a strong and long -
lasting CD8 + response in all three animals studied.
PD01A: Promising Animal Efficacy; Initial
Human Safety and Hints of Disease Modification At the time of our
last post on α - synuclein
vaccines, AFFiRiS had published several papers about the AFFITOME immnotherapy discovery platform [8 - 11] and had even begun their first Phase I trial of PD01A, but had kept nearly silent on many of the most elementary aspects of the
vaccine.
Its Clinical Trials Center conducts 13 - 15 clinical studies per year, and in December initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial of an Ebola
vaccine following its groundbreaking first - in -
human testing of the Ebola
vaccine that showed efficacy in Guinea
last year.
The ethics and value of responsible animal research
Last week we learned that in the first decade since its introduction the HPV (
human papilloma virus)
vaccine has cut... Continue reading The ethics and value of responsible animal research
Last Wednesday, U.S. health officials announced that a potential
vaccine for the Zika virus had entered early clinical trials to assess its safety in
humans.
The Senate Labor and
Human Resources Committee
last week approved a scaled - down bill that would provide
vaccines for poor and uninsured children.
Just like in
humans,
vaccines in dogs and cats only
last for a limited amount of time.