Sentences with phrase «who respond to the vaccine»

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For patients who respond well to these vaccines, however, cancer could become manageable, even if it's not curable, Haber says.

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.

Their experiments with lab - grown mouse and human T - cells suggest that people with cancer who have a greater variety of such receptors may respond better to immunotherapy drugs and vaccines.

They found that the children who didn't respond to the vaccine had an elevated expression of inflammatory cytokines but were also less able to respond to cytokine stimulation.

This suggests that in the children who fail to respond to the oral polio vaccine, bacteria are leaking out of the gut and induce an overstimulation of the immune system, which paradoxically results in suppression of the response to the vaccine.

And figuring out how to boost the genes may help people who don't respond strongly to flu vaccines, he says.

McCain was responding to a question from the mother of a boy with autism, who asked about a recent story that the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program had issued a judgment in favor of an unnamed child whose family claimed regressive encephalopathy and symptoms of autism were caused by thimerosal.

Scientists aiming to develop a method to predict who will and won't respond optimally to the seasonal flu vaccine have identified key differences in individuals» immune responses.