Vaccine Weekly articles from July 2002

Vaccine Weekly archives from July 2002

Vaccines targeting carcinoembryonic antigen under investigation.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Scientists in Canada find carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) an attractive target for cancer vaccines because T-lymphocytes are able to lyse tumor cells...

Gene expression improves success of melanoma vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Expression of at least two of the five HLA class I antigens increased relapse-free survival rates of patients who receive an allogeneic tumor vaccine...

Hepatitis B vaccine less effective in chronic hepatitis C patients.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Although hepatitis B vaccine is somewhat less effective in patients with chronic hepatitis C, interferon-(alpha) therapy appears to make little difference as to...

Information can aid flu vaccination rate among cystic fibrosis patients.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Improvement in influenza vaccination coverage is needed for vulnerable populations such as cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, according to researchers in...

Intranasal vaccine provokes strong immune response in murine model of STD.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Intranasal vaccines for protection against sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea provoked a stronger immune response in the female genital...

PER.C6 license signed with MedImmune.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dutch antibody and vaccine company Crucell N.V. (CRXL) announced it has granted the U.S. biotechnology company MedImmune, Inc., (MEDI), an exclusive license to its proprietary human cell line PER.C6....

Vaccine and immune globulin may protect breast-fed infants from hepatitis B.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - When given the appropriate protection, infants of mothers who are chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers may be able to breast feed without becoming infected...

Antigenics presents positive clinical data of personalized cancer vaccine trials.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antigenics Inc. (AGEN) announced interim results of five clinical trials, including three evaluating the company's personalized cancer vaccine Oncophage (HSPPC-96) in the treatment of melanoma, gastric...

Contraction of T cell response not linked to clearance of infection.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The results of a new University of Iowa (UI) study challenge an old assumption about how the immune system responds to an infection and could have important implications for improving vaccine...

Hadron Advanced Biosystems files nine biodefense provisional patent applications.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hadron, Inc.'s (HDRN) Advanced Biosystems, Inc. subsidiary filed nine provisional patent applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. These provisional patent applications cover novel...

Sperm antigen 17 shows promise for ovarian cancer therapy.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A vaccine directed against sperm antigen 17 showed potential as a successful treatment for ovarian cancer, researchers in Texas report. The...

Phase II trial of GVAX cancer vaccine initiated.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cell Genesys, Inc., (CEGE) announced the initiation of a phase II clinical trial of GVAX pancreatic cancer vaccine in patients with inoperable or metastatic pancreatic cancer. This trial was prompted...

CDC reports on progress toward eradication in Nigeria.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nigeria has greatly improved its surveillance system for polio in the past 2 years, and should place Nigeria on the verge of interrupting poliovirus transmission. Nigeria is one of three global...

Oncophage receives orphan drug status.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antigenics, Inc., (AGEN) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the company's personalized cancer vaccine Oncophage (HSPPC-96) orphan drug status for the treatment of...

Potato may offer protection against human papillomavirus.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists are bellying up to the challenge of creating an edible vaccine to confer protection against human papillomavirus (HPV), one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases and the cause of...

CDC advisers lobby for 'ring containment' smallpox vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 3, 2002... 2002 JUL 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Five doctors advising the federal government on its smallpox vaccination policy appear unanimous in their opposition to a mass inoculation of all Americans, arguing the chances of a terrorist smallpox...

Heat shock protein 70 protects against methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Immunization with heat shock protein 70 prevented development of methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas in mice, according to researchers at Karolinska...

Antibody addition increases success of Streptococcus pneumoniae sepsis treatment.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer ? Researchers in Spain report that the presence of specific antibodies lowered the dose of antibiotics needed to successfully treat sepsis caused by...

Cells expressing granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor prevent gliosarcomas.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Tumor cells expressing granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) showed feasibility as an adjuvant for vaccines against...

Vaccine reduces recurrent infections in adult women.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Lynn Yoffee, senior medical writer - A vaccine has shown promise in phase II clinical trials as a possible treatment for recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI) in women. The vaccine,...

Intranasal delivery of a lipopeptide-PADRE epitope provokes potent immune response.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Intranasal delivery of a synthetic lipopeptide linked to a T-helper epitope induced a strong cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response in mice, according...

The Immune Response Corp. releases results for new vaccine candidate.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Citing an important step in ongoing research in the ability to trigger immune responses specific to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), The Immune Response Corp. (IMNR) announced preliminary results...

Polyguanosine intensifies immunostimulatory effects of phosphodiester CpG oligodeoxynucleotides.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Polyguanosine runs added at the end of oligodeoxynucleotides (ODN) containing CpG prevented the side effects caused by CpG-containing DNA adjuvants...

Drug makers say vaccine shortage will diminish by year's end.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An acute shortage of vaccines for many common childhood diseases should subside by year's end, but drug makers, doctors and lawmakers say that without government intervention more shortfalls could...

U.N. agencies urge 'Days of Tranquillity' for immunization campaign in Burundi.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Concerned that continued armed clashes in Burundi could hinder vaccination campaigns targeting more than 3 million children in the country, U.N. officials have called on all parties to the conflict to...

California warned to be ready to deal with 'acute epidemic'.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- California must be ready to vaccinate entire regional populations in the event of a bioterrorist attack, the federal government said in June 2002. "The risk of a bioterrorist attack is recognized...

Transduced tumor cells are prime candidates for becoming tumor vaccines.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Vaccine and cancer researchers believe immunogene therapy may be a major way to use the body's own immune response system to treat and eradicate certain types...

Quilimmune-P pneumococcal vaccine induces potent immune response in elderly.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antigenics, Inc., (AGEN) announced interim phase I results of its pneumococcal vaccine Quilimmune-P - a combination of a commercially available vaccine plus Antigenics' QS-21 adjuvant. The trial...

Study: ThGRF peptide improves immune function among elderly.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Theratechnologies has announced the successful completion of a phase II clinical trial to determine the efficacy and safety profile of the ThGRF (TH9507) peptide on the immune response of elderly...

Genentech withheld royalties from hospital, jury finds.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A jury awarded City of Hope National Medical Center $300.1 million in compensatory damages in June 2002, after finding that Genentech, Inc. failed to pay royalties on the sale of some drugs developed...

Researchers unveil clinical trial of vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A pair of University of Kentucky researchers are hoping to fight lung cancer with a new vaccine designed to reduce the risk of recurrence of the disease. The two announced a clinical trial June 13,...

No evidence that MMR vaccine is associated with autism or bowel disease.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There is no evidence that measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) or single measles vaccines are associated with autism or inflammatory bowel disease, researchers say. Their conclusion follows the most...

MacroGenics acquires Eliance, establishes partnership in immunotherapeutics with UT Southwestern.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MacroGenics, Inc., announced the acquisition of Eliance Biotechnology, Inc., a private vaccine discovery company located in Dallas, Texas, which was founded to exploit technology developed at The...

Vaccine decision ahead.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The question carries critical weight in the new age of bioterrorism: Who should have access to vaccine against deadly smallpox? The killer has not infected a human in more than two decades, and...

Aventis Pasteur announces increase in vaccine supply.(Brief Article)
July 10, 2002... 2002 JUL 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis Pasteur has announced the availability of an increased supply of the adult and adolescent vaccine for tetanus and diphtheria, Tetanus, and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed For Adult Use (Td), and...

Influenza vaccination reduces risk of adverse cardiac events during flu season.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The risk of developing complications from cardiac infarction and angioplasty procedures during flu season dropped after influenza vaccination, say...

Conjugated CD20 vaccine elicits specific, polyclonal immune response in mice.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The CD20 antigen, expressed only on B lineage cells before differentiation into plasma cells, produced a strong, specific, polyclonal immune response...

Waiting to vaccinate against hepatitis B may be best policy for preterm infants.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - The results of a long-term study that followed preterm infants for several years has revealed that delaying their first hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination may...

Novel Leishmania donovani protein potential vaccine antigen.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - An antigen, found in a large percentage of patients infected with Leishmania donovani, shows promise as a vaccine against the protozoan, according to...

Proteomic methods promising for antigen identification.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Researchers in Austria employed proteomic analysis, the rapid systematic separation, identification, and characterization of proteins in a biological...

Therapeutic HPV vaccine shows promise.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A therapeutic vaccine containing plasmid DNA that codes for the human papillomavirus (HPV) provoked an immune response in patients with HPV-related...

Large-scale testing of new AIDS vaccine postponed.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Large-scale testing of two combined AIDS vaccines scheduled to begin August has been postponed until the end of the year. The tests, involving thousands of volunteers, were delayed as more time...

Study shows promising results for development of preventive vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Immune Response Corporation (IMNR) announced results of a study published in the journal Vaccine (2002;20(21-22):2684-2692), which suggested a combination of Remune and immunostimulatory DNA was...

Antibody-resistant infection poorly controlled after DNA prime/boost regimens.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Potential HIV vaccines effective against some simian strains may not provide similar protection from the human version, researchers warn. "In the rhesus...

Avax Technologies publishes data on antimetastatic activity of its vaccine in an animal tumor model.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Avax Technologies, Inc., (AVXT) announced the publication of a paper entitled "Antimetastatic activity of hapten-modified autologous tumor cell vaccine in an animal tumor model" in the journal Cancer...

Additional phase I/II results show continued safety of NBI-6024 in adolescents.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc., (NBIX) announced that all doses of NBI-6024 were well tolerated when administered subcutaneously in adolescent patients with type I diabetes, at the 62nd annual meeting of...

Trial results of antinicotine vaccine and gene therapy cancer product promising.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Xenova Group plc (XNVA) announced that data from a phase I trial for the antinicotine vaccine, TA-NIC, has shown the vaccine to be safe and well tolerated both systemically and locally and that the...

Epimmune receives FDA clearance to initiate phase I/II therapeutic vaccine trial.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (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 has...

Patent issued for innovative nanoparticle.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (BISP) has received a U.S. patent relating to its calcium phosphate nanoparticles (CAP). In addition to disclosing the compound itself, the new patent discloses methods...

Canada helps U.N. Children's Fund jumpstart vaccination campaign in Angola.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The government of Canada has donated $5.5 million (Canadian) to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for a major measles vaccination campaign in Angola, where a recent peace deal has led to the...

Synergy Vaccines announces issuance of U.S. patent for SynerVax technology.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Synergy Vaccines, Inc., announced issuance of U.S. Patent No. 6,403,092, entitled "Immune Response Modulator Alpha-2- Macroglobulin Complex" to Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, for inventions...

World Health Organization declares European zone free of polio.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The World Health Organization has declared its European zone, which includes former Soviet republics and almost 1 billion people, free of the polio virus. Southeastern Turkey was the last area in...

Panel votes against nationwide inoculation.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A U.S. government advisory panel has come out against vaccinating all Americans against smallpox, proposing instead that the shots be given to special teams of people in each state who would be...

Protein Sciences announces granting of trademarks for GeneXpress and expresSF+.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Protein Sciences Corporation announced that it has been granted additional trademarks by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. These include GeneXpress and expressSF+. "GeneXpress" which...

Aventis Pasteur official tells Senate committee that vaccine shortages are preventable.(Brief Article)
July 17, 2002... 2002 JUL 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Testifying before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Wayne Pisano, executive vice president of Aventis Pasteur North America, stated that a 6-point plan that increases cooperation between...

Anti-idiotypic vaccine successful in treating non-Hodgkin lymphoma.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - The idiotypic proteins expressed by an individual's tumor cells can be used in a vaccine to stimulate a specific immune response against the tumor....

Increase In IFN-(gamma) response predicts BCG vaccine effectiveness.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A new study shows that the wide gap in protection against tuberculosis conferred by the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BGC) in the U.K. and Malawi can be...

African program needs $233 million, WHO says.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- African scientists, multilateral and donor organizations, research agencies and industry met in Cape Town in June 2002, to accelerate research and testing for the development of an AIDS vaccine for...

Direct plasmid injection with 5-FC administration causes liver tumor regression.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Regression of liver metastases from colon carcinoma resulted from injection of a plasmid expressing the cytosine deaminase gene followed by...

Vaccine incorporating encapsulated cytokines protects against liver cancer recurrence.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Rearchers in Japan report that a vaccine containing cytokines encapsulated in biodegradable microparticles demonstrated a protective effect against...

NIAID expands university vaccine testing network.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded seven new contracts that will expand and reorganize its network of university-based sites conducting clinical trials...

Canarypoxvirus-p53 vaccine elicits p53-specific immune response in colorectal cancer patients.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A recombinant canarypoxvirus (ALVAC) expressing human p53 antigen stimulated a specific immune response in patients with advanced colorectal cancer,...

Civilians to get supply of vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Much of the Pentagon's supply of anthrax vaccine, originally intended exclusively for military personnel, is likely to be reserved for civilian use, a senior Pentagon official has announced. David...

Merck KGaA's oncology pipeline presented.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New data on drugs in Merck KGaA's oncology pipeline were presented in seven separate abstracts at the 38th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Orlando. The abstracts...

Herpes vaccine holds promise, but may face controversy.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New research from Datamonitor (DTM.L), a market analysis company, finds that with doctors lacking confidence in the effectiveness of available treatments for genital herpes, and no cure in the...

USF/TGH site for national study testing HIV vaccine in healthy, uninfected volunteers.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine has begun the human trial for a new experimental HIV vaccine at the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) Clinical Research Center. The national...

Pegasys marketing authorization granted by European Commission.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Roche announced that Pegasys (peginterferon alfa 2-a (40 kDa)), a new generation pegylated interferon for the treatment of hepatitis C, has been granted marketing authorization by the European...

Aventis Pasteur ready to meet nation's needs for tetanus, diphtheria vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aventis Pasteur has produced a sufficient supply of the adult and adolescent vaccine for tetanus and diphtheria, Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids Adsorbed For Adult Use (Td), to meet the nation's...

CytRx moves to Nasdaq SmallCap Market.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CytRx Corp. (CYTR) announced that the Nasdaq Stock Market has approved the company's request to transfer its common stock to the Nasdaq SmallCap Market from the Nasdaq National Market effective May 28,...

Dexosome treatment shows early promise in clinical studies.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Clinical investigators affiliated with Anosys, Inc., have reported the first clinical trial results of dexosome therapy at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In this...

MMR uptake fell during early 2002 but is now recovering.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Latest data show that measles mumps rubella (MMR) vaccine uptake in 16- and 24-month-old U.K. children fell over the winter period but then increased in April 2002. This dip was likely to be...

Nabi Biopharmaceuticals begins human testing of novel vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NABI) has initiated NicVAX (nicotine conjugate vaccine) phase I testing in humans. NicVAX is a proprietary and novel investigational vaccine designed to help the body develop...

Pneumococcal surveillance emphasizes need for protective strategies.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Roxanne Nelson, staff medical writer - The overall incidence in pneumococcal disease in Denmark has gone down, report researchers, but there is an increase in antibiotic-resistant strains. In...

AMA endorses guidelines on smallpox vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The following statement is attributable to Ronald M. Davis, MD, trustee: The American Medical Association supports the recommendations announced by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices....

Government health officials say they are stockpiling vaccine.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Within the coming year, the U.S. government expects to stockpile 286 million doses of smallpox vaccine - enough to protect every U.S. citizen in case of a bioterrorist attack. The news was...

Epidemiological data provides measles information in Khartoum.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Epidemiological data collected in Khartoum, Sudan, has shed light on measles vaccinations coverage and clinical outcomes of measles cases. S.A....

Misconceptions about clinical trials and influenza vaccine efficacy widespread among older adults.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Recruiting older adults into a study to assess the cost benefits of influenza vaccination proved difficult because of widely held, but inaccurate,...

Plexus acquires exclusive position for demographically targeted T-cell vaccine discovery.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Plexus Vaccine, Inc., a San Diego based biotechnology company employing rational drug design principles for vaccine discovery and development, announces that it has established a Danish subsidiary...

Poly(L-lactide) proves useful as microencapsulation agent.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Ovalbumin, acting as a drug model, was successfully encapsulated in microparticles made of poly(L-lactide), according to researchers in Taiwan. ...

Vaccine experts report progress in vaccine development.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Leading vaccine scientists from around the world met in Baltimore for the 5th annual Conference on Vaccine Research and will report on the latest research on familiar killers such as pneumococcal,...

Vaccine to be launched in Germany to protect against tick-borne encephalitis.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Baxter International, Inc., announced that a subsidiary's tick-borne encephalitis vaccine, FSME-IMMUN 0.5 ml, received approval for adult use in Germany from the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), the...

ViroLogic, Pfizer, expand agreement to support new HIV drug discovery and development efforts.(Brief Article)
July 24, 2002... 2002 JUL 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ViroLogic, Inc., (VLGC) announced that the company has signed an expanded agreement with Pfizer, Inc., (PFE) to use ViroLogic's novel HIV resistance testing technology for Pfizer's HIV drug discovery...

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine effective against carcinoma in situ of the bladder.(Brief Article)
July 31, 2002... 2002 JUL 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - A single course of treatment with a bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine successfully treated patients with some types of bladder cancer, according...

Wide variation in response to toxoplasma antigens found.(Brief Article)
July 31, 2002... 2002 JUL 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Researchers in France found that the immune response to toxoplasma antigens varied widely among whole blood cultures from pregnant women infected...