Government launching human trials of experimental SARS vaccine
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Researchers have been studying severe acute respiratory syndrome since it was first recognized in 2002. It killed 774 people worldwide before being contained by quarantine, patient isolation and travel restrictions.
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Scientists are testing a vaccine that could prevent heart disease and reverse damage to clogged arteries.
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Scientists next month will reportedly begin human testing of a vaccine to combat a possible flu pandemic that experts have warned could kill as many as 7 million people.
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The first large-scale trial of an HIV vaccine is set to begin in South Africa, it has been announced.
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A Chinese-developed vaccine against the H5N1 strain of bird flu in humans has been found safe in the first round of tests, a government news agency reported Monday.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters Life!) - U.S. researchers said   on Tuesday they are starting trials of a new vaccine aimed at   wiping out childhood ear and sinus infections and many cases of   bronchitis in adults.
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State media says China&#39;s SARS vaccine trials will be finished by January 2005. Final trials on a new SARS vaccine (on volunteers) have been ongoing since May 2004.
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India starts its first human trials of an Aids vaccine with 30 volunteers in the western city of Pune.
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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. Federal ...
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The World Health Organisation began a meeting with top pharmaceutical firms on Thursday to speed up development of human vaccines against bird flu and a looming deadlier strain of the virus that could kill millions of people around the world.
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TORONTO - The chief executive of Canada&#39;s pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturer says he believes the federal government will fund development and testing of a candidate vaccine for the avian flu strain known as H5N1.
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Medical researchers will start  trials of an HIV vaccine in Sweden in October and expect to  extend the program to Tanzania next year, a senior member of  the research team said on Friday.
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Hong Kong scientists have been researching a vaccine for the avian flu epidemic, commonly known as bird flu. Doctor John Nichols, a pathologist at Hong Kong University, says
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China has approved human testing of a domestically developed Aids vaccine and pledged to speed up approvals of new drugs to fight the disease.
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Scientists launched a trial on Monday to  test whether a new drug works as an initial treatment against  the most common form of lung cancer.
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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due  to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early  as this month, a World Health Organization official said on  Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill millions  of people.
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South Africa, burdened with one of  the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on  Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.