Experimentation with smallpox recommended by health panel
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An influential World Health Organization committee is sending shock waves through the scientific community with its recommendation that researchers be permitted to conduct genetic-engineering experiments with the smallpox virus.
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The panel said the shots should be available to all people 50 and older and people who come in close contact with those at high risk of the viral illness.
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Men should be vaccinated against a  sexually transmitted wart virus to protect them against a type  of mouth and throat cancer, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Scientists hacking a smallpox-like virus into doing battle with cancer have given a new weapon to their microscopic warrior. The genetically modified virus now stimulates the body to produce its own cancer-fighting white blood cells.
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RICHMOND -- In Virginia and 17 other states, lawmakers are considering requiring young girls to be immunized against a little-known virus that public health officials say is responsible for nearly 7,000 cases of cervical cancer each year.
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For the first time in its history, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has created a permanent panel of ethicists on vaccine distribution, to help navigate the life-and-death
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The value of freely sharing data on dangerous germs so vaccines and treatments can be developed outweighs the danger that bioterrorists may use the information to do harm, a scientific panel concluded Thursday.
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The government has agreed to spend as much as $1.6 billion to buy millions of doses of a smallpox vaccine tailored for people with impaired immunity.
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The government plans to develop an experimental treatment for anthrax from the blood of people vaccinated against it. Such a medicine has never been tested on people, but scientists think it has a good chance of working based on animal tests.
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Work has started on building a 200 million-dose stockpile of smallpox vaccines but it could take up to three years to complete, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Wednesday.
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A federal advisory panel yesterday recommended expanding the groups considered a priority for receiving flu shots if vaccine is available.
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Public health researchers have developed a model for recommending a range of responses in the event of an anthrax bioterrorist attack.
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NEW YORK  - The recommendation by the  American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1995 that all children  in the US be given the chickenpox vaccine seems to have paid  off handsomely, a study indicates.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the US health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found.
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The smallpox vaccine protects for a lifetime, and so does actual an infection of measles or mumps, according to the first long-term study of immunity to childhood diseases.
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NEW YORK  - The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has released the 2007-2008 recommended immunization schedules for adults in the US, according to a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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Since the universal childhood varicella vaccination program was implemented in the United States in 1995, there has been a sharp decline in chickenpox-related deaths, according to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).