Vaccine Weekly articles from August 2002

Vaccine Weekly archives from August 2002

Delayed varicella immunization may improve efficacy.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Delayed administration of varicella virus vaccine might enhance its protective effects, researchers in the United States say. Mark S. Dworkin and...

Nondenatured parvovirus B19 antigen advances analytical technology.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Use of a nondenatured form of the parvovirus B19 antigen NS1 by researchers in Denmark significantly improved the sensitivity of analytical tests for...

HER-2/neu antigen promotes specific T-cell immunity in cancer patients.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Patients with breast, ovarian, or non-small cell lung cancer were able to develop T-cell immunity to HER-2/neu protein, according to a report in the...

Pseudotyped viral protein particles provide improved efficacy.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - HIV protein particles can trigger extensive HIV-specific immune responses when wrapped in the shell of a different virus, researchers in France report. "In...

Varicella vaccine may offer protection to adults.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stanford researchers have found that a childhood vaccine given in adulthood can reduce the risk of shingles, an excruciatingly painful disease that strikes the elderly and people with weakened immune...

CDC: Shortage of two vaccines is over.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Shortages of two childhood vaccines - one to protect against measles, mumps and rubella, and a second to fight diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough - are over in the U.S., the government has...

New vaccine requirements aimed at Nevada's high rate of hepatitis.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New Nevada health regulations that went into effect July 1, 2002, require all children entering public and private schools in Nevada for the first time to be vaccinated against hepatitis A and B. ...

Licensing agreement will focus on vaccine development.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dutch antibody and vaccine company Crucell N.V. (CRXL) and Genexine Co., Ltd., a Korean drug development company, announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement wherein Crucell's PER.C6...

Chemotherapy can eliminate the protective effects of measles and rubella immunizations.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Children who received intensive chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) lost their immunity against measles and rubella and required...

Invasive pneumococcal disease more prevalent in England/Wales than reported.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The true incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) incidence in England and Wales is at least three times the official estimate, according to...

Nasal spray flu vaccine developed at U-M needs no additional clinical trials, says FDA.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has asked for additional information, but no additional clinical trials, as it considers approval of FluMist, an influenza vaccine delivered as a nasal spray. ...

Macaque resists SIV challenge by blocking viral replication postentry.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A rhesus macaque resisted two intravaginal and one intrarectal challenge with SIV, yet failed to seroconvert, a result attributed to cellular...

Across the U.S., volunteers undergo vaccine trials in case of attack.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With the jab of a needle, volunteers are being injected with a smallpox vaccine as part of U.S. government-sponsored experiments that come amid heightened fear of biological terrorism. About 330...

U.S. officials ready plan for quarantine.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. health officials are quietly making plans for quarantining Americans who might be exposed to a highly contagious smallpox patient, addressing sensitive questions of how to hold people, possibly...

Novel cancer vaccines report presented at Therapeutic Vaccines European Congress 2002.(Brief Article)
August 7, 2002... 2002 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Biomira, Inc., (BIOM) (BRA) announced that a Biomira company representative presented at the Therapeutic Vaccine European Congress 2002, London, England. The Congress focused on therapeutic vaccines...

Oral antibodies reduce damaging effects of H. pylori infection.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Oral delivery of anti-Helicobacter pylori antibodies obtained from chicken egg yolk hindered H. pylori proliferation, according to researchers in...

Antigen entry into cytosol enabled by liposomal listeriolysin O.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Encapsulation of a protein antigen along with listeriolysin O in a liposome allowed the antigen access into the cytosol, researchers in the U.S....

Glioma remission promoted by combining vaccination and radiation.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Vaccination alone stimulated the growth of intracranial glioma tumors, but the addition of radiation therapy induced an immune response that...

Vaccine status assessed by PAHO.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With 3 million deaths worldwide each year from diseases preventable by vaccination, it is not surprising that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has a division entirely devoted to immunization...

Appetite loss after immunizations absent in breast-fed infants.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Breast-feeding eliminated the disruption in eating that infants can experience after receiving childhood immunizations. "An attenuated severity...

Los Alamos researchers recommend AIDS vaccine strategies.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory are using their extensive genetic understanding of the HIV-1 virus - the most common form of the virus that causes...

Licensing agreement focuses on cancer vaccines.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Epimmune, Inc., (EPMN), a biotechnology company focused on the development of pharmaceutical products using multiple, specific epitopes to activate the body's immune system, announced that it had...

VaxGen, Genentech amend agreement regarding AIDS vaccine candidate.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VaxGen, Inc., (VXGN) announced that its May 1, 1997, license and supply agreement with Genentech, Inc., (DNA) has been revised to give VaxGen greater flexibility in commercializing the company's AIDS...

Diabetes patients in Poland at risk for hepatitis B virus, need vaccinations.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - According to researchers in Poland, at least two prominent risk factors place diabetes patients in that country at greater risk for acquiring hepatitis B virus...

CDC issues mortality stats for 2000.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medical care providers should consider pertussis as a cause of new cough illness in people of all ages, according to a report issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the July...

Texas officials deal with surge in cases.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Texas health officials are continuing to battle a surge in whooping cough cases that has not abated since a record year in 2001. This year, 378 cases of whooping cough, including the deaths of...

Nepal treks do not increase rabies risk for tourists.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A study done in Nepal revealed that, although hiking in that country does not increase risk of contracting rabies, women were more likely than men to...

Kaiser Permanente begins vaccine study.(Brief Article)
August 14, 2002... 2002 AUG 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At the Oakland Medical Center, volunteers in a new study are getting vaccinated against smallpox for the first time. Kaiser Permanente's Vaccine Study Center is one of four sites in the U.S....

Oral antibodies reduce damaging effects of H. pylori infection.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Oral delivery of anti-Helicobacter pylori antibodies obtained from chicken egg yolk hindered H. pylori proliferation, according to researchers in...

Antigen entry into cytosol enabled by liposomal listeriolysin O.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Encapsulation of a protein antigen along with listeriolysin O in a liposome allowed the antigen access into the cytosol, researchers in the U.S....

Glioma remission promoted by combining vaccination and radiation.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Vaccination alone stimulated the growth of intracranial glioma tumors, but the addition of radiation therapy induced an immune response that...

Vaccine status assessed by PAHO.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- With 3 million deaths worldwide each year from diseases preventable by vaccination, it is not surprising that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has a division entirely devoted to immunization...

Appetite loss after immunizations absent in breast-fed infants.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Breast-feeding eliminated the disruption in eating that infants can experience after receiving childhood immunizations. "An attenuated severity...

Los Alamos researchers recommend AIDS vaccine strategies.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory are using their extensive genetic understanding of the HIV-1 virus - the most common form of the virus that causes...

Licensing agreement focuses on cancer vaccines.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Epimmune, Inc., (EPMN), a biotechnology company focused on the development of pharmaceutical products using multiple, specific epitopes to activate the body's immune system, announced that it had...

VaxGen, Genentech amend agreement regarding AIDS vaccine candidate.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VaxGen, Inc., (VXGN) announced that its May 1, 1997, license and supply agreement with Genentech, Inc., (DNA) has been revised to give VaxGen greater flexibility in commercializing the company's AIDS...

Diabetes patients in Poland at risk for hepatitis B virus, need vaccinations.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - According to researchers in Poland, at least two prominent risk factors place diabetes patients in that country at greater risk for acquiring hepatitis B virus...

CDC issues mortality stats for 2000.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medical care providers should consider pertussis as a cause of new cough illness in people of all ages, according to a report issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the July...

Texas officials deal with surge in cases.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Texas health officials are continuing to battle a surge in whooping cough cases that has not abated since a record year in 2001. This year, 378 cases of whooping cough, including the deaths of...

Nepal treks do not increase rabies risk for tourists.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A study done in Nepal revealed that, although hiking in that country does not increase risk of contracting rabies, women were more likely than men to...

Kaiser Permanente begins vaccine study.(Brief Article)
August 21, 2002... 2002 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At the Oakland Medical Center, volunteers in a new study are getting vaccinated against smallpox for the first time. Kaiser Permanente's Vaccine Study Center is one of four sites in the U.S....

Researchers design a better pneumococcal vaccine.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Octavalent pneumococcal vaccines conjugated to either diphtheria toxoid or tetanus protein stimulated different serotype responses but offered...

Vaccine prepared with 7-hydroxystaurosporin found effective against intracranial tumors.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Enhancing the uptake of glioma tumor antigens by dendritic cells (DCs) through treatment with 7-hydroxystaurosporin increased survival of glioma...

MMR and varicella vaccines work well together.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Providing the varicella vaccine at the time of MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) immunization does not reduce the safety, tolerability, or efficacy...

Parents' misperceptions about chickenpox may influence vaccine decisions.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results from a nationwide survey found that parents of children ages 4-12 were more reluctant to vaccinate their child against chickenpox than against other preventable illnesses and that...

Equivalent protection against childhood illnesses conferred by three- or four-vaccination schedule.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Childhood immunization schedules that provided three or four installments of a combined vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, and...

Mindset and NYU collaborate on novel vaccine technology for Alzheimer disease.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mindset BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., and New York University School of Medicine (NYUSM) announced that they have signed an agreement through which Mindset becomes the worldwide exclusive licensee of a...

Some student vaccine rules relaxed.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At least four states are relaxing student immunization standards at the start of the school year because of lingering shortages in vaccines for many common childhood diseases. The U.S. Centers for...

U.S. government warns of complications.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- At least 13 people with cochlear implants to restore their hearing have come down with meningitis, including two preschoolers who died, the U.S. government said July 25, 2002, warning that the implants...

MedImmune reports results for first 6 months of 2002.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MedImmune, Inc., (MEDI) announced that total revenues for the first 6 months of 2002 increased 41% to $393 million from $279 million in the first 6 months of 2001. Product sales grew 43% during...

Net loss of $0.37 per share reported.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genzyme Corp. reported that total revenues for Genzyme Molecular Oncology (GZMO) for the second quarter of 2002 were $2.3 million, up from $1.3 million in the second quarter of 2001. The increase...

Antibody genes from patients induce broad antiviral activity.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Antibody genes from HIV patients could form the basis for an effective HIV vaccine, researchers in the United States report. "Although several human...

Vical Receives U.S. government contract to manufacture Ebola vaccine.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vical, Inc., (VICL) announced that the company has been awarded a contract to manufacture clinical-grade supplies of an experimental DNA vaccine against Ebola for initial clinical development planned...

New effort attempts to reach women with tetanus vaccine.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- UNICEF announced concentrated efforts to reach women in poor, hard-to-reach communities with vaccine against maternal and neonatal tetanus, an effort it said could potentially save the lives of...

Infectious disease threats loom in U.S.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The threat of infectious diseases is looming over the United States bringing heightened awareness of bioterrorism, vaccine supply, and antimicrobial resistance, health officials said at a press...

Immune Response Corp. wins patent for T-cell receptor peptide vaccine.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Immune Response Corp. (IMNR) announced it was recently granted United States Patent No. 6,413,516 entitled "Peptides and Methods Against Psoriasis." The new patent includes composition and methods...

U.K. government criticized for choice of vaccine.(Brief Article)
August 28, 2002... 2002 AUG 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A newspaper claimed July 31, 2002 that Britain had ordered the wrong smallpox vaccine to stockpile in case of bioterror attack. But the government defended its decision, saying it was made with...