TB & Outbreaks Week articles from June 2000

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from June 2000

Scientists Study Hepatitis B Carrier Characteristics in New Zealand.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at the Hepatitis Foundation in New Zealand have not only determined the carriage rate of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in a community in the North Island, but also the common markers associated with this...

Vaccine Evaluated in Non-Immune Volunteers.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Australia evaluated a Plasmodium falciparum vaccine in non-immune volunteers. "A placebo-controlled, randomized, double-blind trial was conducted in human volunteers to test a mixture of...

Pediatric Incidence Higher in Israel.(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists say that asthma and asthma symptoms are slightly more prevalent in Israel than other countries in Europe and the Far East that have reported asthma incidence. According to T. Shohat and...

New Virus Isolated from Human Brain Cells.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- For the first time, Borna disease virus (BDV) has been isolated from brain tissue of a schizophrenic patient. Researchers in Hokkaido University, Osaka University, Rakuno Gakuen University, the National...

Study Analyzes Schistosoma mansoni Prevalence in Ethiopian HIV Patients.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Public health professionals have analyzed the prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and schistosomiasis in a population of individuals living on a sugar estate in Ethiopia. Schistosomiasis...

New Hepatitis C Subtype Variant Found in Japan.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The report of a new hepatitis C virus (HCV) variant was published recently in the journal Virus Genes. Investigators at Toshiba General Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, described the genotypic characteristics of...

Risk Factors Determined for Urban Nigerians.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A recent study identified several biosocial risk factors for hypertension among urban Nigerians, including male gender, having greater body mass index (BMI), and belonging to a higher socio-economic class. ...

Rapid Assay Eliminates Unnecessary Use of Antibiotics.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- A new study conducted by researchers at the Texas Children's Hospital in Houston indicates that faster diagnosis of the influenza virus in pediatric patients with symptoms of respiratory infections can lead to...

Japanese Rate Influenced by Health System.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Inadequate obstetric services are associated with high mortality rates for women delivering babies in Japan, according to a study published in the May24/31, 2000, issue of The Journal of the American Medical...

Antimicrobial Use Needs Improvement.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Based on a recently conducted survey, hospital workers still need to improve their antimicrobial practices to protect themselves against infection. To see how well pharmacy and infection control staff at...

Researchers Discuss Management Strategies.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Yemen reported on management strategies for peripheral tuberculous lymphadenitis. "Three hundred and two patients with peripheral lymphadenopathy due to tuberculosis were diagnosed and...

Conjugate Vaccines Immunogenic in Young Children.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Conjugate pneumococcal vaccines induced immunological responses in children, researchers in Finland reported. "Prevention of pneumococcal infections is a public health priority because of the high impact...

Infection Elicits Anti-Apoptotic Gene Expression.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers have found that respiratory epithelial cells infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) have greater protection against apoptosis. J.B. Domachowske and colleagues at Upstate Medical...

Trichomonas vaginalis Relatively More Common Among Older Men.(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) was found to be common among older men in the Denver, Colorado, area who attended sexually transmitted disease clinics, although incidence overall is low. J.L. Joyner and...

Patients Often Only Notify Main Partner.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- When diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease, patients typically notify their main partners but not any other sexual partners. According to P.M. Gorbach and colleagues from San Diego State...

Researchers Investigate Transmission Patterns in Prison System.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a recent study, researchers in Spain investigated the transmission patterns of tuberculosis (TB) within the prison system in Catalonia. "IS6110- and polymorphic GC-rich repeat sequence (PGRS)-based...

Further Negotiations Encouraged on Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Ministers of Health meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 53rd World Health Assembly (WHA) have launched an appeal for further negotiations between UNAIDS and the pharmaceutical industry to increase...

Listeria Infection Prevented by Anti-Toxin Monoclonal Antibody.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The course of Listeria monocytogenes infection was prevented in a murine model by the use of an anti-toxin monoclonal antibody (MAb), researchers in the United States and France reported. "Listeriolysin O...

DNA Vaccines Under Development for Lassa Fever Virus.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States are exploring vaccines for emerging arenaviruses. "Lassa fever virus is a rodent-borne arenavirus endemic to West Africa," explained M.J. Buchmeier and colleagues from...

Pre-Clinical Data Presented for Non-Antibiotic Toxin Binder.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists at GelTex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (GELX), Waltham, Massachusetts, reported preclinical data on a non-antibiotic Clostridium difficile toxin binder, GT160-246, at Digestive Disease Week 2000, the annual...

Cottage Industry or Organized Crime?(counterfeit drugs)
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- "Every day people die because of counterfeit drugs", said Dr. Idrissou Abdoulaye, senior official at the Ministry of Health of Benin, at the May 17, 2000, session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva,...

Bioactive Silver-Containing Glass Could Help Fight Bacterial Disease.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Missouri professors and their students are pursuing a novel means of drug delivery: silver-containing bioglass. More specifically, they are experimenting with incorporating bioactive glass...

Half of Europeans Will Be Obese by 2030.(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Health researchers say about half of European adults will be obese by 2030, and an emerging epidemic of obesity among children and adolescents is partly to blame. The growing problem of obesity among...

WHO Takes on Challenges, New and Old.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The World Health Organization called May 20, 2000, for more concerted international action against AIDS, malaria, and smoking-related diseases, while also raising concerns on new issues like bioethics and...

Virus Infects Cells without Glycosphingolipids.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Neither glycosphingolipids nor gangliosides are required for the early stages of influenza virus infection, researchers report. "To test whether gangliosides are essential for the virus entry into cells,...

Mucin is Early Defense Response.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Epithelial mucin production in the context of respiratory viral infections is an early defensive response, researchers say. "Respiratory viral infections are associated with both copious secretion of mucus...

Researchers Report on Effects of Mutation.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers recently reported on a mutation of the alphavirus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE). Mutation of the virus, which is an important human and equine pathogen, resulted in a virus that...

South Africa's Health Minister Says Offer of Cheaper Drugs a 'Nonstarter'.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The offer from five major drug companies to slash overall costs of HIV/AIDS drugs was a "nonstarter," South Africa's health minister said May 23, 2000. The firms announced earlier in May that they would...

Appropriate Use, Not "Magic Bullet" Best Bet to Ward Off Dangers.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- Correcting antibiotic resistance requires the help of many, including the general public, the medical community, and farmers if we are to ward off the dangers of resistance to antibiotics, according to Stuart...

Researcher Says U.S. Not Prepared for Medical Impact of Attack.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The United States is not prepared for a bioterrorist attack, according to Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, the chair and chief executive officer of ican, INC., in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Osterholm made his...

CDC Continuing Efforts to Address Infectious Diseases.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- We have to pay attention to and learn from the issues and problems that arise in other parts of the world so we are better prepared to confront them when they appear in this country, according to the director...

Agreements Set Vaccine on Fast Track to Developing Countries.(AIDS vaccine )
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The development of an innovative, orally-administered AIDS vaccine by the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) will be funded by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) under terms of a new multi-year,...

Health Workers Addressing 139 Cases in Arkansas.(Statistical Data Included)
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- The outbreak of tuberculosis at Forrest City Junior High School in Arkansas presents no health threat to others, according to the director of the state Health Department. "I want to strongly emphasize that...

Misperceptions About Value of Vaccines May Lead Parents to Question their Use.
June 6, 2000... 2000 JUN 6 - (NewsRx.com) -- An alarmingly high percentage of parents hold misperceptions about the value and safety of vaccines, which may lead them to refuse some or all immunizations for their children, says Bruce G. Gellin, MD, MPH,...

Cost-Effectiveness of Varicella Vaccine Evaluated in U.S. Army Recruits.(Statistical Data Included)
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A analysis of screening and vaccinating for varicella in new recruits in the U.S. Army indicates the current preventive programs are not cost-effective. "Varicella outbreaks in the U.S. Army disrupt...

Bacterium Does Not Require Iron to Infect Host.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- New research from scientists at the University of Georgia, just published in the journal Science, demonstrates that Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease in humans, is the first...

Genetics a Factor in Susceptibility.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A Mayo Clinic study has shown that genetic coding plays a significant role in susceptibility to acquiring autoimmune hepatitis, according to a report published in Immunological Reviews. In this study,...

Four-Day Ceftriaxone Treatment Effective.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a recent study from Chile, researchers compared a four-cycle and a seven-day cycle of treatment with ceftriaxone for children with bacterial meningitis. They found the four-day treatment was effective...

Serological Techniques Not Accurate for Diagnosis.(Chlamydia trachomatis )
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers report that the poor accuracy of serologic techniques used to detect Chlamydia trachomatis make the methods pretty unreliable. H. F. Rabenau and colleagues at the University Hospital of...

Oseltamivir Reduces Flu Symptoms.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The drug oseltamivir could reduce the duration of influenza symptoms by up to 40%, according to research published in the May 27, 2000 issue of The Lancet. The use of some antiviral drugs for influenza...

Pregnant Women at Increased Risk.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pregnant women are twice as likely to attract malaria-carrying mosquitoes, increasing the risk of malarial disease, according to a research letter published in the June 3 issue of the Lancet. Malaria is a...

New Vaccine Results in Good Antibody Response.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Meningococcal C conjugate vaccine is safe and results in immunologic memory (immune system "remembers" characteristics of meningococcal C and reacts to it), according to an article appearing in the June 7...

Viruses Replicate in the Presence of Interferons with Antiviral Properties.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Although viruses in the same family have many common characteristics, they also can differ in the way they live and react in cells that express antiviral cytokines. A study recently conducted by...

Drug Resistance Prompts Evaluation of Treatment Regimens.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A report published in the May 22, 2000, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine outlined recommendations from a working group convened by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the...

Emphasis Placed on Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases to Prevent HIV-1.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The second of a series of articles on HIV published in the Lancet states that "STD control remains an urgent public health priority for the prevention of HIV-1 and the prevention of the complications of STDs....

Adverse Reactions Evaluated in Israel Defense Force.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The smallpox vaccine was deemed "relatively safe" in a study of Israel Defense Force recruits. "The aim of the present study was to assess the post-smallpox vaccination complication rate in a cohort of...

Children Experience Milder Illness than Adults.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study comparing the symptomatology and severity of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has shown that adults suffer more than children when they acquire this disease. The study was conducted by researchers at...

Assay Designed to Test in vitro Potency of Vaccines.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in France have developed an assay to help determine the in vitro potency of yellow fever vaccines before they go to market. "Quality control of yellow fever vaccines performed by Control...

Clinical Trial Data Presented for New Antibiotic.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CBST), Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced that positive data on Cidecin (daptomycin for injection), including expanded data from the company's Phase II bacteremia trial, were...

Morphogenesis Distinct from Other Bunyavirid Viruses.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A new hantavirus, Black Creek Canal virus (BCCV), is associated with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Investigation of BCCV demonstrated the distinction between morphogenesis in hantaviruses and other...

Researchers Report Importance of CD46 Receptor.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- At a recent conference, researchers confirmed the relevance of the complement regulatory protein CD46 as a cell-surface receptor in natural measles virus (MV) infection. "Receptor usage by primary patient...

Uncontrolled Asthma May Cause Recurrent Pneumonia.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Uncontrolled asthma may be the cause of recurrent pneumonia in patients vaccinated against the disease, researchers in Brazil and the United States report. "We evaluated the response to 23-valent...

Ketolides Comprise New Family of Antibiotics.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bacteria that cause community- acquired respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are growing increasingly resistant to the commonly used antibiotics penicillin and erythromycin. According to preliminary data...

BCG Vaccine Dangerous for Children with Primary Immunodeficiency.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is contraindicated in children with primary immunodeficiency (PID), researchers in Brazil reported. "Immunization schedule for children in Brazil includes BCG and...

Filovirid Glycoprotein Cleavage Studied.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Germany have examined the cleavage process of glycoprotein (GP) in Marburg and Ebola viruses of the filovirus family. The Filoviridae consists of enveloped viruses containing a...

Compound Effective in vivo Against Fungal Disease.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Immtech International Inc. recently announced promising results from a compound tested in animals against aspergillosis, a serious fungal disease. The studies showed that higher doses of the company's DB-368...

Mbeki Appeals for U.S. Support on AIDS in Africa.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- On May 22, 2000, U.S. president Clinton met with South African president Thabo Mbeki, who appealed for U.S. support, "whatever our differences" over how best to combat AIDS on the African continent. ...

Decline in Procedure Likely Among Egyptian Adolescents, Recent Research Suggests.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- While the vast majority of adolescent girls in Egypt are still being circumcised, young Egyptian women today are at least 10 percentage points less likely to undergo this procedure than were their mothers,...

Of Desert Storm's 700,000 U.S. Troops, 26% Now Disabled.(Statistical Data Included)
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Operation Desert Storm, which concluded in 1991 with seemingly light U.S. personnel losses, instead has proven costly to 183,000 Gulf War veterans who have been declared disabled by the U.S. Department of...

NIAID Creates Global Network to Advance Development of Vaccines.(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The worldwide search for an HIV vaccine received a boost as the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced funding of nine U.S. clinical units of the new HIV Vaccine Trials...

Colorado Girl Stricken, May Stem From Arizona.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- A 12-year-old girl was in critical condition at children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado, with the sometimes deadly hantavirus. Health officials said on May 21 that the girl may have contracted the disease...

Vaccine Development Agreement Initiated.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Chiron Corp. (CHIR), Emeryville, California, and the National Institute of Public Health of Norway (NIPH or FOLKEHELSA) in Oslo announced a signing ceremony formalizing previous agreements to collaborate on...

Drug to Combat African Sleeping Sickness Proven Effective in Animal Studies.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- Immtech International Inc. announced recently that its oral drug to combat deadly African sleeping sickness, DB-289, performed well in animal studies. Tests performed by researchers at The University of...

Worrying Rise in High Risk Sexual Behavior among Homosexual Men.
June 13, 2000... 2000 JUN 13 - (NewsRx.com) -- The first-ever report of an increase in unsafe sex among gay men in England was published in the British Medical Journal the first week of June. It represents a worrying shift in behavior 20 years after...

Gender Influences Health Decisions in Vietnamese Patients.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- by Sonia Nichols, Staff Medical Writer -- A study conducted by researchers in Sweden indicates that gender plays a significant role in the health care and treatment decision-making process of men and women in...

Assay Detects Differences in Mycobacterium-Infected Microphage Membranes.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Mycobacterium microti-infected macrophages can be differentiated from uninfected macrophages using a standard antiserum assay technique, researchers report. S. Majumdar and colleagues at the Institute of...

HIV-1 Often Associated with Tuberculosis in South African Children.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- HIV-1 co-infection is often found in children admitted to the hospital for tuberculosis in South Africa. S.A. Madhi and colleagues, South African Institute of Medical Research, calculated HIV/TB...

Scientists Have New Approach to Combating Antibiotic Resistance.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers are focusing on aminoglycosides, a family of antibiotics that includes drugs such as neomycin, as a new tool to address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. The research was reported...

Scientists Conclude HIV Began in 1930s Africa.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- HIV evolved from a benign simian infection into a human virus in the early 1930s, long before it was recognized as a disease, but it stayed in remote Africa until jet travel, urban environments, and the...

Accelerating Development and Future Availability.(HIV-1 vaccine )
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- An HIV-1 vaccine offers the best long-term hope to control the AIDS pandemic, especially in less-developed countries, according to research presented in the June 10 issue of The Lancet. To ensure its...

Researchers Identify Possible Drug Target.(human granulocytic ehrlichiosis )
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Minnesota researchers have identified the molecule on human cells that binds to the bacterium responsible for human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), a recently discovered tick-borne disease. ...

Greater Diversity of Small Animals May Reduce Vector-Borne Disease Rates.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- People are less likely to get Lyme disease if they live in areas with a greater diversity of small mammals, according to research presented in the June 2000 issue of Conservation Biology. This is the...

Study Shows Genetic Engineering of Mosquitos is Possible.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in England have demonstrated that mosquitoes carrying malaria can be genetically modified. The implications of their work with jumping genes include insects genetically engineered to be immune...

Scientists Outline Clinical Symptoms of Tuberculosis in Infants.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Medical investigators at the University of Athen's P. and A. Kyriakou Children's Hospital in Greece outlined the clinical symptoms of tuberculosis in infants in a recent edition of the International Journal...

Nitroimidazopyrans May Be New Treatment for Multi-Drug Resistant TB.(tuberculosis)
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pathogenesis Corporation scientists indicate that compounds known as nitroimidazopyrans may be a treatment for multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis. Reporting in the June 22 issue of Nature (vol....

Macrophages May Not Depend on T-Cell Cytokines in Tuberculous Nodules.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers theorize that macrophages in tuberculous granulomas might not rely on T-cell cytokine production for functioning but may be able to auto-regulate cytokine expression. G. Fenhalls and fellow...

Primary Hepatitis C Sources Identified.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- A recent study determined that the majority of hepatitis C virus (HCV) cases in the U.S. result from injection drug use and high-risk sexual activity. Between 1991 and 1998, I.T. Williams, from the U.S....

Mississippi Receives $2 Million to Combat Public Safety Threats.(from biological warfare)
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- The estimated $2 million the state of Mississippi will receive in the next five years to prepare for biological warfare will be spent on education and detection, say health officials. The U.S. Centers for...

WHO Issues New Alarm.(drug-resistant infections)
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) warned June 12 that increasingly drug-resistant infections in rich and developing nations alike are threatening to make once-treatable diseases incurable. Scientists...

U.S. Lawmakers Want FDA to Do More to Block Tainted Drugs.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Members of the U.S. Congress are pressing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to increase efforts to block the importation of tainted drug ingredients that could end up in American medicines. Rep....

Vaccine May Not Be Best Bet for Everyone.(Lyme disease vaccine )
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Minnesotans considering the Lyme disease vaccine probably shouldn't be influenced by a high-profile ad campaign targeting Minneapolis and St. Paul (the Twin Cities), and Duluth by the vaccine's manufacturer,...

AAP Recommends Pneumococcal Vaccine for Children Under Age Two.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) announced childhood immunization recommendations for use of the newest form of the pneumococcal vaccine. The pneumococcal vaccine helps...

Pinworms Affect 20-42 Million Americans, Mostly Children.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- Summertime, and the living is easy. Except if your child has pinworms, an annoying infection whose symptoms include anal itching, irritability, and restlessness. Pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis) is the...

Agreement Signed to Develop Pulmonary Delivery System for Monoclonal Antibody.
June 27, 2000... 2000 JUN 27 - (NewsRx.com) -- MedImmune, Inc. (MEDI), Gaithersburg, Maryland, and Alkermes, Inc. (ALKS), Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced that they have signed an agreement to develop an inhalable formulation of a monoclonal antibody...