SARS Vaccine Passes 1st Clinical Test, China Says
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Chinese health officials said Sunday that the world&#39;s first vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) had proven safe and effective in a phase-one clinical trial.
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Volunteers receiving a severe acute respiratory syndrome vaccine in a clinical test show no obvious signs of side effects so far, said Zhong Nanshan, an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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THE first US vaccine against SARS, which swept parts of Asia and around the world last year, is ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers said today.
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Korean researchers say they've had success with an oral flu vaccine that many people will find preferable to needles or inhalants.
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Chinese researchers have developed a SARS vaccine that has passed the first stage of human trials, state media reported on Monday, raising hopes for prevention of a virus that killed some 800 people since it emerged in 2002.
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Merck & Co Inc's Gardasil, the first  vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, has been approved for sale  in the Europe Union, the joint venture that will market the  product in Europe said on Friday.
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Researchers have been studying SARS since it was first recognized in 2002. It sickened 8,096 and killed 774 people worldwide before being contained by quarantine, patient isolation and travel restrictions.
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SARS is expected to emerge in China  again this winter, but an epidemic is unlikely as the world's  most populous country is better prepared this time round,  health officials say.
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A first-generation experimental bird flu vaccine for use in humans from GlaxoSmithKline Plc has won outline support from European regulators.
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BEIJING - Chinese researchers have produced a vaccine that works against SARS, the news agency Xinuha reported Sunday. Researchers injected 36 healthy volunteers with the vaccine, starting in May, and 24 developed
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The first TB vaccine to be developed in more than eighty years has passed safety trials in the UK.
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The U.S. Army has carried out a promising early test of the first vaccine against hepatitis E, a form of the liver-attacking disease that sickens many Asians and can spread to soldiers or other Western visitors to the region.
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Scientists have made important progress in their quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and reduce the risk of severe, life-threatening attacks by almost two-thirds.
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Efforts to develop a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer took a step forward Monday, with test results suggesting that a vaccine now in development can provide long-lasting protection.
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A panel of US experts on Wednesday unanimously agreed that a new Sanofi-Aventis meningitis vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective, but said follow-up data was needed.
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Laboratories in China that wish to experiment on risky pathogenic microbes will now need official approval, say officials. Last March two lab workers caught the SARS virus at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The National Institutes of Health is launching a human trial to test the safety of an experimental vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome.