Vaccine Weekly articles from June 2001

Vaccine Weekly archives from June 2001

New Vaccine Stimulates Mucosal, Systemic Antibodies in Mice.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A vaccine incorporating the recombinant B subunit of the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin (LTB) completely protects mice from influenza, say researchers...

Nanobacteria Are Present In Vaccines, But Any Health Risks Remain Unknown.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccines are an indispensable weapon in the battle to prevent disease, both in humans and animals. Provision and protection of the vaccine supply is so essential that no possible pathogen is beyond...

Cancer Vaccine Produces Response In Patients With Late Stage Disease.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Early results from a small study of metastatic lung and colorectal cancer patients indicate that a vaccine made from genetically-altered cancer cells resulted in a dramatic regression of cancer in...

Adding Bile Salts To Oral Vaccines Stimulates Potent Immune Response.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Incorporating bile salts into nonionic surfactant vesicles boosts the potency of oral vaccines and may ultimately provide oral alternatives to current...

Mumps Vaccine Causes Remission Of Human Papillomavirus-Caused Disease.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Preliminary research suggests that injecting the mumps vaccine at the tumor site can induce remission in more than 75% of children affected with recurrent respiratory papilloma (RRP), a disease of...

T-Cell Antigen Mtb 8.4 Shows Promise As Vaccine Candidate.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers working in the United States and Brazil have confirmed the effectiveness of Mtb 8.4, a low-molecular-weight immunoreactive T cell antigen,...

Antibody Therapy May Be Able To Treat Bacterial Eye Infection.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Incurring a corneal abrasion, or the use of long-term or extended wear contact lenses, increases the risk of eye infection. The longer lenses are worn without removal, the greater the risk for...

CpG-Like Oligonucleotides Influence Immune Responses.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hybridon, Inc. (HYBN) has presented data from two studies focusing on the company's CpG-like oligonucleotides (Hybridon IMOs) designed to modulate the immune system, for use as vaccine adjuvants or...

Phase I Vaccine Trial Set To Begin In Women With HIV And/Or Human Papillomavirus.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Institute of Human Virology (IHV), at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, is set to begin Phase I clinical trials on Multikine, a drug produced in Baltimore, Maryland, by Cel-Sci...

Fiber-Mutant Adenovirus Vector Yields Efficient Gene Expression In Dendritic Cells.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new fiber-mutant adenovirus vector is better than traditional adenoviruses for genetically modifying dendritic cells (DCs), say researchers working in...

Rhinovirus Replicons Allow Mucosal Immunization With RSV Fusion Protein.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Human rhinovirus vectors allow the successful in vitro expression of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion (F) protein following mucosal...

Immune Response To Hepatitis A Falls In Taiwanese Population.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - The authors of a Taiwanese study say factors leading to a better standard of living in Taiwan have decreased the number of young people with immune response...

Maternal Antibodies May Delay and Contain EBV In Infancy.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The persistence of maternal antibodies in the first months of life may explain why Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is mild or asymptomatic in infancy. The...

DNA Vaccine Decreases Ocular Disease Severity And Acute Infection In Trigeminal Nerve.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have developed a DNA vaccine against herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) that decreases severity of disease in the eye in mice infected with HSV-1 by the corneal route. Immunization...

Accelerated Vaccination Program In U.K. Not Linked To SIDS.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Immunization does not render a child more vulnerable to sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and may, in fact, offer some protection from unexplained infant...

African-American Children More Likely Not To Get All Vaccines.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Further research confirms that African-American children across the U.S. are at significant risk of being under-immunized. National Immunization Survey data were reported in the May 2001 issue...

Higher Age At Vaccination Confers Better Protection Against Hepatitis B Virus.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A follow-up study of Italian children who received the hepatitis B vaccine showed that most still had protective hepatitis B surface antigens (HBs) five...

More WIC Interventions Could Remedy Shortfall In Vaccination Coverage.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Children who participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) are less likely than their affluent counterparts to be...

Worldwide Eradication Goals May Conflict With Local Health Priorities.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - When it comes to health care, what works in the industrialized world may not work in poorer countries, a fact that isn't necessarily apparent until common...

Ras Vaccine Prolongs Survival in Patients With Advanced Disease.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A pancreatic cancer vaccine can stimulate potent immune responses even in patients with advanced disease - responses that translate to prolonged survival....

Careful Therapy Considerations Could Ease Resistance Problems.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - When prescribing antibiotics for pneumococcal infections, clinicians are justifiably nervous about growing resistance problems. But they may be leaning...

IM Preimmunization With PVRV Confers Best Antibody Protection In Travelers.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Rabies vaccination can be given before or after exposure, but even people with adequate immunity to rabies need two follow-up boosters if exposed. That...

Endotoxin Removal Delivers Promising Vaccine Candidate For M. catarrhalis.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - By reducing the level of endotoxin in the UspA2 protein of Moraxella catarrhalis, researchers have come up with a promising candidate for a vaccine against...

FDA Approves New Vaccine.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Twinrix(R) [Hepatitis A Inactivated & Hepatitis B (Recombinant) Vaccine], manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, received approval on May 14, 2001, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

Tat Protein, Component Of HIV Vaccines, Has Been Successfully Produced In Spinach.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2001... 2001 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The success of combating AIDS in the most affected and least developed parts of the world will ultimately depend upon logistics and economics of vaccine production and delivery in a harsh and very...

Long-Term Survivor Shows Tumor-Specific Immune Response.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Solving the mystery of long-term survival in people with a deadly form of cancer could help scientists gain critical insight for vaccine development. ...

Vaccine Coverage Unimpaired by New Policy Recommending Inactivated Virus Formulation.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Fears that a change in the recommended vaccination schedule to include inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) would alarm parents sufficiently to lower vaccine...

New Assay Convenient For Large-Scale Screening Efforts.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A simplified test to detect antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus could make large-scale screening and vaccine development more convenient. The...

Patients Benefit From Haemophilus influenzae Vaccine.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - People with thalassemia, especially those who have undergone splenectomy, can benefit from vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), but an...

Antigen Unnecessary For Antitumor Activity Of ALVAC-CEA B7.1 Vaccine.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An adjuvant that was proposed to enhance the efficacy of a canarypox virus vaccine for metastatic cancer has failed to pass muster. Nevertheless, the...

Common Virus Is Major Cause Of Transplant Failure In Children.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A common virus that infects the heart is a major reason for heart transplant failure in children, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered. "This finding should lead to a...

Getting More Companies To Produce Flu Vaccine May Head Off Delays.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. will continue to risk flu vaccine shortages as long as only a handful of companies produce the vaccine, health officials said May 31, 2001. Last year's shortage occurred after the...

Hospitalized Patients Should Get Flu Vaccine.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Hospital inpatients have as much or more to gain from influenza vaccination as anyone else, yet they rarely receive the vaccine while hospitalized. If...

Nasal Flu Vaccine Enters Safety, Immunogenicity Trials.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ID Biomedical Corp. has initiated expanded human safety and immunogenicity studies of the company's subunit intranasal influenza vaccine. The first group of healthy adult volunteers has been...

Add 'Infotherapy' To Your List Of Medical Terms.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NewsRx Network, Atlanta, Georgia, the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news, now has coined a new medical word: "infotherapy." The new word is the...

Nasal Immunization Helps Subdue Corneal Infection By Bacteria.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Rats immunized with killed Pseudomonas aeruginosa are better able to resist potentially blinding corneal infection than nonimmunized controls, according to...

Repeated Peptide Vaccination Maintains Tumor Antigen-Specific T Cells.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Vaccination with a peptide antigen (Ag) against corresponding Melan-Am/MART-1 Ag can stimulate and maintain high levels of CD8(+) T cells, say researchers...

TA90-IC Marker Indicates Clinical Efficacy Of CancerVax.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - TA90, a tumor-associated glycoprotein antigen expressed on most melanoma cells, is a proven marker of subclinical tumor burden in melanoma. Now, a new...

Gates' Foundation Donates Millions To Combat Epidemics In Africa.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The foundation created by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is donating $70 million to combat meningitis epidemics in Africa that have killed more than 100,000 people since the late 1980s. The...

Dismantling of Lymphocyte Activity Underlies Dim Prognosis.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The inability of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) to reach pancreatic tumor cells, and their loss of CD3 zeta, limits their potency against pancreatic...

Late Immunization Puts Low-Birth-Weight Babies At Risk.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants are likely to get routine childhood immunizations months later than normal-birth-weight (NBW) children, new research shows. The study was the first of its...

Vaccine Proves Valuable During Outbreak In China.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The Vi polysaccharide vaccine may prove useful in areas endemic for typhoid fever, both before and during outbreaks. H.H. Yang and colleagues...

Flu Vaccine Stimulates Specific, Not General, Antibody Response In MS Patients.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Fears that vaccination against influenza might stimulate central nervous system (CNS) antibodies in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients have been laid to...

Increasing Vaccination Leads To Herd Immunity.(Brief Article)
June 13, 2001... 2001 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The increasing incidence of varicella vaccination in North Carolina day care centers has been accompanied by an even faster decline in infection,...

Oral Vaccine Could Offer Palatable Alternative To Parenteral Delivery.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - An oral vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV), the causative agent of cervical cancer, has been brought one step closer to reality by researchers in...

DNA Vaccine Is Immunogenic But Falls Short of Full Protection.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A DNA vaccine consisting of Plasmodium yoelii heat shock protein 60 (PyHsp60) offers enough protection against the sporozoite in mice to warrant further...

Vaccines Achieve Good Safety Results In Clinical Trials.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vical Inc. (VICL) reviewed the safety data from its recent Allovectin-7(R) and Leuvectin(TM) clinical trials, along with results suggesting research directions to enhance patient immune response,...

Dendritic Cell Vaccine Shows In Vivo Activity.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Some patients with colorectal cancer are able to respond to a vaccine prepared from their own dendritic cells, but long-term clinical effects are not yet...

Adding GM-CSF To gp100 DNA Vaccine Protects Mice From Tumors.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A plasmid cDNA vaccine coding for the melanoma antigen gp100 can protect mice against melanoma tumors, and now researchers have found that adding...

Recombinant PhpA Protein Vaccine Protects Mice From S. pneumoniae.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers at Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines may have overcome some of the limitations of the current multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, according to a...

Maintenance Therapy With Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Not Advantageous.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Patients with vesical carcinoma in situ or high-grade superficial bladder tumors receive no clinical benefit from continued administration of intravesical...

BCG Augments Photodynamic Therapy, Prevents Tumor Recurrence.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine stimulates an immune response against tumors treated with photodynamic therapy (PDT) in mice and improves the...

MUC1 Dendritic Cell Vaccine Suppresses Tumor Growth In Mice.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A dendritic cell (DC) vaccine pulsed with peptide of tumor-associated antigen MUC1 can control tumor growth in both human MUC1-transgenic (Tg) mice and in...

Low Doses Of GM-CSF Not Enough To Stimulate Neutralizing Antibodies.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Cancer and myeloma patients administered granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) for immune stimulation may produce GM-CSF-specific...

Nearly One In Five U.S. Gay Men Infected With Hepatitis B Virus By Age 22.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Despite the availability of an effective vaccine for nearly two decades, few adolescent and young adult men who have sex with men (MSM) are vaccinated against hepatitis B. As a consequence,...

FDA Approves Combination Vaccine Against Hepatitis A And B.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new combination vaccine that protects individuals 18 years of age or older against diseases caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV) and the...

Routine Vaccination Should Be Standard Care In Nursing Homes.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Elderly, institutionalized patients have nothing to lose and everything to gain from routine vaccination against influenza, and clinicians caring for them...

Vaccine Demonstrates 18% Response In Non-Small-Cell Disease.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cell Genesys, Inc. (CEGE) reported data on its GVAX(R) lung cancer vaccine that demonstrate anti-tumor activity has been observed in every cancer that the GVAX vaccine has been tested in to date....

Vaccines Against Mosquito Midgut Receptors May Limit Transmission.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - By preventing development of Plasmodium species in mosquitoes, antibodies targeting the mosquito midgut could eventually halt the global transmission of...

University Hospital Breaks Ground In Cancer Vaccine Research.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rebecca learned she had skin cancer on her son's fourth birthday. "I was on my way out to pick up his birthday cake when I got the news and I thought, 'I'll have to put this on the back...

Vaccine Protects Against Array Of HIV Strains.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- VaxGen, Inc. (VXGN) presented laboratory data at a scientific conference indicating that the company's HIV/AIDS vaccine induces immune responses capable of preventing infection from a broader array...

IL-6 And IL-10 Critical In Primary But Not Secondary Infection.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-10 substantially decrease spleen viral loads following infection with Friend retrovirus (FV) but are less relevant in long-term...

Youngest Children Have Greatest Disease Burden In Bangladesh.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Contrary to current recommendations, development of a vaccine against typhoid fever should target the youngest children, say researchers working in a...

BCG Infections From Vaccine Rare But Possible.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Although infection from bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccine is rare, clinicians should be aware that it does happen, said researchers working in Taiwan. ...

Novel Adeno-Vaccine Demonstrates Strong Immune Response, Safety.(Brief Article)
June 20, 2001... 2001 JUN 20 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Crucell, N.V. (CRXL) has presented data demonstrating that its new system for vaccination, called AdVac(TM), stimulates a strong immune response, with improved safety. Current gene delivery...

Vaccine Induces Peptide-Specific Response.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A member of the TCR VP family shows promise as a vaccine candidate for multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience...

Reason Behind Vaccine's Lack Of Efficacy In Elderly Remains Elusive.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - The ongoing emergence of antibacterial-resistant strains of Pneumococcus, despite approval of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide (PPS) vaccine, has...

Vaccine Induces Immunity in Subjects With and Without Infection.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A Helicobacter pylori whole-cell (HWC) vaccine can induce immune responses in both H. pylori-infected and -uninfected people. The HWC vaccine shows...

Strong Immune Response Observed In Chimps After Hepatitis C Rechallenge.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Surprisingly, researchers have found some chimps retain an immune response to hepatitis C virus (HCV) rechallenge long after their original hepatitis...

IL-12 Suppresses Response To Japanese Encephalitis Plasmid DNA Vaccine.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Although interleukin 12 (IL-12) has been shown in previous research to boost immune response when it is used as a vaccine component, researchers in Taiwan...

Measles Vaccine May Offer Novel Treatment Approach.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The virus strain used worldwide for more than 30 years to produce the measles vaccine may be effective for another purpose: fighting lymphoma, a group of cancers that originate in the lymphatic...

Uganda Officials Say HIV Vaccine Could Be Available In Five To Seven Years.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- According to a June 5, 2001, statement by the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC), an HIV vaccine may be available to Ugandans in five to seven years. The Monitor newspaper reported that "UAC's...

Chemotherapy Regimen Boosts Potency Of Whole-Cell Vaccine In Mice.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, paclitaxel, and doxorubicin appears to overcome the potential limitations of an antitumor vaccine. J.P.H. Machiels...

Researcher Says More Outbreaks Likely, Advanced Vaccines Could Provide Control.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Writing in the June 2001 Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr. John Beale warns that future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) will be "more likely" as the movement of people and...

Radical Groups Promote Campaign Against Western Medicine In Nigeria.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- There are signs that Nigeria's northern region is becoming increasingly vulnerable to annual epidemics of measles and meningitis amid widespread resistance to immunization by suspicious locals. ...

Assuming Vaccine Is Cost-Effective Is Not Necessarily Valid In Hong Kong.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Vaccination against influenza cannot be justified in cost-benefit terms in Hong Kong, even when only the elderly get the vaccine, say researchers working...

DNA Immunization Of Mothers May Mean Better Response In Newborns.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Immunizing mother mice with naked DNA may ultimately lead to better vaccine efficacy in their offspring, say researchers working in the United States. ...

HTLV-1 Vaccine Protects Squirrel Monkeys From Infectious Challenge.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A vaccine against human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type 1 (HTLV-1) shows promise in pilot prime-boost regimens. Mirdad Kazanji at the Pasteur...

Epimmune Awarded NIH Grant To Continue Work On Vaccine.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Epimmune Inc. (Nasdaq: EPMN) announced June 6, 2001, that it has been awarded a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to continue its work in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Medical...

Immune Response To Peptide Vaccine Best Measured In Lymph Nodes.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Although some melanoma patients have benefited from peptide vaccines, their clinical responses have not consistently corresponded to measurements of immune...

Ohio Town Tries To Stem Outbreak By Vaccinating Almost 6,000 People.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Ohio health officials said on June 5, 2001, that they planned to inoculate thousands of high school students in an effort to contain a meningitis-related outbreak that has killed two teenagers. ...

Natural Immune Response Reduces Nerve Damage, May Lead To Improved Treatment For Spinal Cord Injury.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a series of animal experiments, scientists have shown for the first time that damage to the central nervous system causes the body to mount an immune reaction against itself that actually...

New Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Key Staff Announced.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- NewsRx Network, Atlanta, Georgia, the leading provider of life science databases and daily and weekly health news, has announced top staff appointments, including a new editor-in-chief and...

Mucosal Vaccination Protects Mice Against 50% Lethal Challenge.(Brief Article)
June 27, 2001... 2001 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - A new staphylococcal enterotoxin vaccine that can be administered nasally or orally stimulates specific immune responses in mice and protects them against...