Vaccine Weekly articles from December 1999

Vaccine Weekly archives from December 1999

Salivary Gland Immunization Elicits Specific Antibodies.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) Targeted salivary gland (TSG) immunization may provide protection against infection by oral and pharyngeal pathogens that may invade local, mucosal surfaces, researchers from Japan report. Shigetada Kawabata and...

HBV Vaccine Safe and Effective in Those with Chronic HCV.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Hepatitis B virus vaccination is safe and effective in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety, immunogenicity, and possible therapeutic effect of hepatitis B...

Inactivated HAV Vaccine is Safe and Effective.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Pasteur Merieux Connaught inactivated hepatitis A vaccine was found to be safe and effective in a Venezuelan study. Researcher O. Castillo de Febres and colleagues from Valencia's Carabobo University...

Next Flu Pandemic in U.S. Could Kill 200,000.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The next influenza pandemic to hit the United States could kill more than 200,000 people, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) figures. Researcher M.I. Meltzer and colleagues from...

Clues to AIDS Virus Variability Discovered.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists working with monkeys at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered new evidence explaining why retroviruses such as HIV in people and SIV in rhesus monkeys are so variable and difficult for the...

Long-Term Follow-Up Data Presented for Cancer Vaccine.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Avax Technologies, Inc., announced nine-year follow-up data of stage III melanoma patients from company-sponsored Phase II studies of M-Vax, an individualized, cell-based vaccine for cancer and the company's lead...

Children in Day Care Need HAV and Influenza Vaccination.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Children attending day care centers should be vaccinated against hepatitis A virus and influenza, a study from the United States suggests. The study was presented by G. Agahi and colleagues at the 127th Annual...

Safer Vaccine Nearly Eliminates Side Effects.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A large-scale study confirms that a new pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine is much less likely to cause side effects than the older vaccines, according to information presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the...

CEL-SCI Starts Cancer Vaccine Collaboration in Germany.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cel-Sci Corp. announced that it has entered a research collaboration with Drs. Iduna Fichtner and Gabriele Pecher at the Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany. This agreement marks the...

CEL-SCI Announces Data from Phase II Study.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- CEL-SCI Corp., in response to media questions in advance of World AIDS Day, released the following frequently asked questions and answers: Do you have any results from your Phase II HIV vaccine study? The...

Role of Protein in Atherosclerosis Supports Vaccine.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- New research demonstrates that the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) can promote atherosclerosis, thus supporting the novel vaccine approach to preventing or treating that disease now under development by...

Data Show Lyme Disease Vaccine Is Well Tolerated in Children.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study with LYMErix(R) [Lyme Disease Vaccine (Recombinant OspA)], manufactured by SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, presented at the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) meeting held in Philadelphia,...

Verdict Split on Vaccine Use.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Spurred by the latest U.S. federal recommendations, colleges are mounting a widening attack on meningococcal meningitis this fall with health advisories, educational campaigns, and vaccination clinics. The...

Gates Foundation Announces $750 Million Gift.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 13, 1999... 1999 DEC 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a gift of $750 million over five years to help ensure that children in developing countries are immunized against major killer diseases in the new millennium. ...

Key Phase of Human Immune Response Seen.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- The first detailed pictures of key immune system cells locked onto fragments of a foreign substance provide new clues about how the immune system identifies enemy threats and may even lead to a novel way of...

Vaccine Results Spur Optimism.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Gather malaria experts together and the news is inevitably grim. Malaria sickens at least 300 million people every year, kills up to 2.7 million, and treatment resistance is growing. To make matters worse, new...

New Research Illustrates Protein Involvement.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- New research demonstrates that the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) can promote atherosclerosis, thus supporting the novel vaccine approach to preventing or treating that disease now under development by...

Synthetic Oligodeoxynucleotides Provide Protection.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) Repeated administration of synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) expressing CpG motif can provide long-term protection against bacterial infection, researchers from the United States report. Previous research...

Gene-Trapping Strategies May Aid Drug Research.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Genome-wide gene-trapping strategies may prove to be valuable assays for drug research. "With sequence analysis of the human genome well underway, there is an increasingly urgent challenge to understand the...

Researchers Uncover Clues To Influenza Evolution.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Evolutionary studies of influenza have provided researchers at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) with information that could eventually result in the development of more effective flu vaccines. ...

New Tool Provides Major Advance in Understanding.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- One of the most frustrating puzzles of Lyme disease is why some people develop debilitating chronic complications despite receiving recommended treatment. Now scientists have developed a new method to explore...

Macrophages Need Nerve Growth Factor for Survival.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) Nerve growth factor (NGF) protects macrophages from the cytopathic effects of HIV infection, reports researchers from Italy. Cells of monocyte/macrophage (M/M) lineage play an important role in the pathogenesis...

Researchers Discover New Target Antigen.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- UroGenesys, Inc. reports the discovery of a novel gene that provides a promising route for developing new therapies to treat prostate cancer. The studies, published in the December 6, 1999, issue of...

Immunization Rates Studied in Greece.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- In 1993 a major rubella epidemic took place in Greece, which was followed by the birth of a large number of babies with congenital rubella. Reporting in the December 2, 1999, issue of the British Medical...

U.S. NIH Researchers Report on Engineered Vaccine Research.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health are exploring efforts to improve engineered vaccines for HIV and hepatitis C virus. J.A. Berzofsky and colleagues report on several approaches to develop...

Smallpox-Related Virus Exploits Chemokine Receptors.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- As debate continues on whether to destroy the world's last two vials of smallpox virus, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) scientists have discovered that a virus related to smallpox uses the same...

RAGE-1 Pulsed Dendritic Cells Stimulate Anti-Cancer Response.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Autologous mature dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with a RAGE-1 HLA-B7 peptide induced anti-cancer responses in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). E. Ranieri and colleagues from institutions in the United...

Extruded DOTAP:Cholesterol Liposome Used for Gene Delivery.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Nonviral vectors are being rapidly developed for the treatment of various diseases. Nancy Smyth Templeton from the Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA, recently presented data on the progress being made in...

United Nations Seeks Additional Funding to End Disease.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 27, 1999... 1999 DEC 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- The United Nations (U.N.) has appealed for an extra $50 million to buy vaccines for its campaign to wipe out polio worldwide by the end of 2000. "We have an urgent need for the next six months to keep this...