Sentences with phrase «vaccine studied for»

Important reports from the Weiner lab include the first DNA vaccine studied for HIV as well as for cancer immune therapy of cutaneous T cell lymphoma, the early development of DNA encoded genetic adjuvants, including IL - 12, advances in gene optimization, and advances in electroporation technologies resulting in improved gene delivery.

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But while thousands of clinical trials on immunotherapy drugs, of which many are predicted to fail, are springing up, the depth of information on neoantigen vaccines is much shallower: Just two studies on neoantigen vaccines for melanoma, recently profiled in Nature, were completed last year in Boston and Germany.

A recent comparative study of worldwide military and social spending indicated how at present 1.3 million dollars per minute on average are spent for military purposes; during the same minute 30 children die for lack of food or simple vaccines (WMSE).

There are now two rotavirus vaccines for infants, and studies indicate a dramatic drop in the number of new cases.

Many studies have been conducted and the results consistently show that the flu vaccine is safe and effective for children.

A well conducted study published in the Italian medical journals in June 2007 demonstrated that the daily intake of Colostrum can be 3x more effective than the flu vaccine for providing protection.

Professor David Salisbury, director of immunisation at the DoH, said: «It's natural for parents to worry about the health and well - being of their children and I hope that this study will reassure them that there is no evidence linking the MMR vaccine to autism.»

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.

In the new study, the method accurately predicted vaccine efficacy rates for more than 40 years of flu records.

«The results of this study represent a major scientific achievement, for which WHO congratulates the vaccine development partnership,» says Moorthy.

Our studies demonstrate that anti-vaccine conspiracy theories may present a barrier to vaccine uptake, which may potentially have significant and detrimental consequences for children's health.»

He said that the most exciting arenas of immunology today include new strategies for vaccines and studies of regulatory T lymphocytes and the innate immune response, which is essentially the most general form of attacking pathogens.

«Study offers new recommendations for TB vaccine testing in humans.»

At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, which conducted the study, the first use of the new DTaP was in the vaccine's fifth booster shot in 1991, followed by its use for the fourth booster the next year.

Dr. David Cavanagh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «There is a desperate need for an effective vaccine, which can be made easily in large quantities, to protect against this devastating disease.

«New study has important implications for the design of a protective HIV vaccine.»

The vaccine administered in the study was for viral influenza — a disease against which doctors recommend patients be vaccinated annually.

Studies that compare flu alterations in multiple people won't immediately tell researchers how to design vaccines, she says, but could point to parts of the virus for further investigation.

The study has important implications for the design of a protective HIV vaccine.

For thimerosal, the IOM looked at five studies, examining populations in Sweden, Denmark, the United Kingdom, and the United States (studies that vaccine critics contend were flawed).

CCR5 should remain «a very important target for vaccines and drugs,» he says, noting that they have found only one person with the double CCR5 defect in 300 people studied so far.

Yet there is reason for optimism: the NIH has already developed a DNA vaccine against the West Nile virus that appeared promising in early human studies (although ultimately the NIH could not find a commercial partner to take that vaccine forward).

A multi-institutional study, as reported in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, shows that mandatory flu vaccines for healthcare workers improve vaccination rates by as much as 30 percent and reduce absenteeism during critical periods by about six percent.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, lead researcher on the other study, adds that the meeting allowed him and Fouchier to explain their work, including the potential benefits for surveillance of emerging flu strains (Nature 481, 417 - 418; 2012) and for vaccine preparation (Nature 482, 142 - 143; 2012).

Researchers for the past decade have focused on the T cell approach, based on studies showing that monkeys receiving such vaccines against simian immunodeficiency virus, related to HIV, lived longer or had lower viral levels than usual.

Although previous studies of similar nanoparticles have found an effect of nanoparticle shape and size on antibody responses, such a trend was not seen at significant levels for the DENV2 - E vaccine.

«Based on epidemiological studies, the 9vHPV vaccine could prevent approximately 90 percent of cervical cancer, 90 percent of HPV - related vulvar and vaginal cancer, 70 to 85 percent of high - grade cervical disease in females, and approximately 90 percent of HPV - related anal cancer and genital warts in males and females worldwide,» explained Anna R. Giuliano, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Infection Research in Cancer at Moffitt.

«We think we can use our molecular, rational design approaches to make a better flu vaccine for people who really need it,» says study leader Andrew Pekosz, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The study, which will not be completed for at least five years, will evaluate whether the vaccine prevents tumor recurrence rather than causing shrinkage.

For their research, Pekosz and his team, using human nasal tract cells, studied the weakened strain of the flu virus that is used in the nasal spray vaccine and compared its behavior with that of the flu virus itself.

The study involved 10 275 healthy children aged 2 to 14 years who were randomly assigned to receive three injections of the CYD - TDV vaccine (6851) or a placebo (3424) at 0, 6, and 12 months, and followed for up to 2 years.

The study size requires screening about 10,000 patients for the presence of the MAGE - A3 antigen that the vaccine targets.

In our study, for every 83 individuals receiving the high dose vaccine a person was prevented from being hospitalized during the influenza season,» he said.

The organization supports vaccine - related research, and Singer knew that her bosses would expect her to vote for more studies of vaccines as a possible cause of the condition.

The nursing homes in the study were randomly assigned to one of two groups as a care standard for influenza prevention, with either the regular dose of the influenza vaccine or the high dose vaccine as the care standard for their residents age 65 and older.

Children undervaccinated for three or four doses of DTaP vaccine were 18.56 and 28.38 times more likely, respectively, to have received a diagnosis of pertussis than children who were age - appropriately vaccinated, the study reports.

And by providing an animal model for the fetal damage, the studies should also ease the path for testing potential vaccines and treatments.

For example, a study just out in The Lancet, funded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and focused on Medicare patients, found that the high - dose vaccine was 22 percent more effective at preventing flu - related hospital admissions.

While Ruth has focused on providing the basis for the development of a malaria vaccine, Victor concentrated on basic immunology, studying the structure and function of various immune components and the parasitology of malaria and Chagas disease.

«This vaccine appears to be safe for patients, and elicits a broad anti-tumor immunity — we think it warrants further testing in larger clinical trials,» said study lead author Janos L. Tanyi, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Penn Medicine.

According to a study published in Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, the Tdap vaccine is safe for both mothers and infants.

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.

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.

«Vaccines do work for pandemic flu, says study.»

This study strengthens the argument for focusing on the malaria side of the parasite - human interaction in our search for new vaccine candidates.»

Profectus BioSciences in Tarrytown, New York, which is developing a similar vaccine, needs some $ 2 million to produce it under good manufacturing practice standards, a prerequisite for any human study.

Maldonado and Almeida have each studied Chagas disease for more than 25 years and recently received a patent for the first synthetic Chagas vaccine.

Study data also indicated that the high - dose vaccine may provide clinical benefit for the prevention of hospitalizations, pneumonia, cardio - respiratory conditions, non-routine medical visits, and medication use.

Ding's next goal is to raise $ 5 million so he can spend about five years studying new vaccines for human pathogens such as dengue fever.

At the time of this study (2010 - 2011), the vaccine was only recommended for girls.