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Using a capillary isoelectric focusing-whole column imaging detection (CIEF-WCID) method the isoelectric points (pI) of complete intact polioviruses were determined. The polio viruses that were analyz...
MODELING THE EFFECTS OF IMMUNIZATIONS TIMING ON CHILD HEALTH OUTCOMES IN INDIA.
Timely vaccinations of children in developing countries are important for reducing morbidity and mortality, which are Millennium Development Goals. However, a majority of children do not possess vacci...
Cancer immunotherapies, their safety and toxicity.
Introduction: Cancer immunotherapy encompasses a wide range of treatment modalities that harness the anti-tumor effects of the immune system. Some immunotherapies broadly activate the immune system wh...
Designing CAF-adjuvanted dry powder vaccines: Spray drying preserves the adjuvant activity of CAF01.
Dry powder vaccine formulations are highly attractive due to improved storage stability and the possibility for particle engineering, as compared to liquid formulations. However, a prerequisite for fo...
This report summarizes recommendations approved on February 21, 2013, by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the use of influenza vaccines. An expanded 2013 ACIP influenza vacc...
The 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza, though antigenically novel to the population at the time, was antigenically similar to the 1918 H1N1 pandemic influenza, and consequently was considered to be "ar...
By employing modified Cornell model, we have evaluated the potential of adjunctive immunotherapy with DNA vaccines to shorten the tuberculosis chemotherapy period and reduce disease reactivation. We d...
Outer-membrane vesicles (OMVs) have inherent adjuvant properties, and many vaccines use OMV as vaccine components. Utilizing the adjuvant properties of OMV could lead to the formulation of vaccines th...
BACKGROUND: Reports of data mining results as an initial indication of a prospectively detected safety signal in the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) have been limited. In April 2010...
The immune system has evolved regulatory mechanisms to control immune responses to self-antigens. Regulatory T (Treg) cells play a pivotal role in maintaining immune tolerance, but tumour growth is as...
News Articles
VACCINES Synthetic Generation of Influenza Vaccine Viruses for Rapid Response to Pandemics
Cobra Biologics to manufacture DNA vaccine for Vaccibody
Clinical- and commercial-scale biologics and pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Cobra Biologics Ltd, and Vaccibody AS, a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines against cancer and chronic...
Sinovac to Host Conference Call to Report First Quarter 2013 Unaudited Financial Results
BEIJING, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Nasdaq: SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the...
Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease
Promotion of influenza vaccines is one of the most visible and aggressive public health policies today. Twenty years ago, in 1990, 32 million doses of influenza vaccine were available in the United......
Malaria Parasites 'Talk' To Each Other
Melbourne scientists have made the surprise discovery that malaria parasites can 'talk' to each other - a social behaviour to ensure the parasite's survival and improve its chances of being transmitte...
Japan Health Ministry Orders Probe Of HPV Vaccine Side Effects
Japan health authorities have issued a caution to physicians to be alert for side effects of cervical-cancer vaccines after a citizens group complained of unusually high numbers of problems.
Expert questions US public health agency advice on influenza vaccines
The United States government public health agency, the CDC, pledges "To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived." But Peter Doshi, a pos...
In response to our recent list of Top 50 Most Influential People in Vaccines, the Impatient Optimists website of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [...]
Media surveillance system analyses public concerns about vaccines
Research published this week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases highlighted the importance of monitoring the media to analyse public concerns about vaccines. The researchers applied [...]
Why You Should Be Investing In DNA Vaccination Technology And Inovio Pharmaceuticals
ByHealthcare Specialist: Important Historical and Sociological perspective on current and future vaccination technology Historically vaccines are thought of as one of the greatest achievements of m...
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Companies
Merck is a global healthcare leader working to help the world be well. Merck is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada. Through our prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, a...
Xenetic is a leading UK-based biopharmaceutical company providing leading-edge expertise in the development of a whole new generation of drugs and vaccines. Working with some of the largest pharma...
VGTI Florida is the Florida-funded expansion of Oregon Health & Science University's highly successful Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute. Research at the facility will focus on v...
Etubics Corporation, based in Seattle, Wash., is a clinical stage bio-pharmaceutical company, which has developed a proprietary platform technology consisting of a next generation...
Fraunhofer USA CMB, a division of Fraunhofer USA, Inc., is a not-for-profit research organization whose mission is to develop safe and effective vaccines targeting infectious dise...
Profectus BioSciences, Inc. is a technology based vaccine company devoted to the treatment and prevention of chronic viral diseases with a goal of reducing morbidity and mo...
Genocea Biosciences is a vaccine discovery and development company targeting major infectious diseases with high unmet medical needs, in which T cell response helps confer protect...
Advaxis is a biotechnology company developing proprietary, live but attenuated Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria) vaccines that deliver engineered tumor antigens, which stimulate...
Genocea Biosciences is a vaccine discovery and development company targeting major infectious diseases with high unmet medical needs, in which T cell responses help confer protect...
Today's Merck is a global healthcare leader working to help the world be well. Merck is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada. Through our prescription medicines, vacc...
Clinical Trials
RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's white blood cells may help the body build an effective immune response. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects of vaccine therap...
Improving the Immune System With Human IL-7 Vaccine in Older Subjects Who Have Had Chemotherapy
Background: - Drugs given to treat cancer (chemotherapy) can weaken the human immune system. But it can also become weaker because of aging. Interleukin (IL)-7, a molecule produced natura...
GSK Biologicals is developing in partnership with the Malaria Vaccine Initiative at PATH a candidate malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS02 for the routine immunization of infants and children living...
A Study to Assess the Safety of Live Intranasal Sendai Virus Vaccine in Children and Toddlers
Croup is an illness of young children that is caused by a virus. With this illness, the child has fever, cough, and hoarseness. Although the illness usually gets better in 2 to 4 days, so...
Vitamin A Supplementation With Routine Childhood Vaccines and Mortality and Morbidity
Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) is important for the immune system and may interact with different childhood vaccinations. We have hypothesized that the improved survival after VAS may dep...
The purpose of this study is to learn whether or not giving a tetanus/diphtheria vaccination ("tetanus shot") before giving pneumococcal vaccine makes the pneumococcal vaccine more effecti...
MMR and Varicella Vaccine in Premature Infants
This research is designed to address the question, "Does the relative deficit in vaccine immunogenicity in extremely premature infants persist beyond the first 6 months of life?" We propos...
Study to Eliminate Hib Carriage in Rural Alaska Native Villages
Hib disease rates in rural Alaska before introduction of HIb conjugate vaccine were among the highest in the world. Since vaccine introduction, rates have fallen by 90% but the disease ha...
Rituximab in the Treatment of Graves' Disease
Aim: In a phase II pilot study encompassing 20 patients with Graves’ disease to evaluate the effect of rituximab: 1. Biochemically as assessed by markers of disease activity ( fr...
Antibody Responses to Pneumococcal Vaccines Among HIV-Infected Adults.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the major cause of bacterial infection in HIV-infected patients. The current pneumococcal vaccine is poorly efficacious in patients with a CD4 cell count lower...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Tuberculosis Vaccines
Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent or treat TUBERCULOSIS.
Ebola Vaccines
Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER.
Dengue Vaccines
Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with DENGUE VIRUS. These include live-attenuated, subunit, DNA, and inactivated vaccines.
West Nile Virus Vaccines
Vaccines or candidate vaccines used to prevent infection with WEST NILE VIRUS.
Electrochemotherapy
A treatment modality that uses pulsed electrical currents to permeabilize cell membranes (ELECTROPORATION) and thereby enhance the uptake of chemotherapeutic agents, vaccines, or genes into the body's cells.
