Malaria vaccine shows promising results in children
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In a clinical trial involving more than 2,000 children under the age of five, a potential malaria vaccine was shown to be safe and well tolerated by the children&#39;s immune system for up to six months.
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Medical researchers have obtained promising results from a trial of a genetically-engineered allergy vaccine.
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African babies -- the group most at risk of dying from malaria -- may be protected against the mosquito-borne disease by an experimental vaccine, researchers said on Wednesday.
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A leukemia vaccine has been successful enough in its first trials to warrant larger studies that will include hundreds of patients, researchers report.
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Encouraging phase II results of a trial to test the efficacy of a malaria vaccine for young children is published in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (pp 1380, 1411).
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Scientists believe a chimp virus may hold the clue in the long-running battle to develop a malaria vaccine.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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A new, low-cost drug is launched to combat malaria, aimed at children in sub-Saharan Africa.
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A vaccine against malaria, which kills up to three million people a year, could be a reality by the end of the decade, scientists involved in one of the biggest clinical trials in Africa said yesterday.
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After more than two decades of effort, researchers say they have found the first vaccine that is effective against malaria. Trials in Africa showed that the vaccine blocked almost half of new infections in
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It&#39;s been a long, tough fight, but researchers say results of a major malaria vaccine trial mean science may be winning the war against a disease that claims millions of lives each year.
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An experimental vaccine can slash the risk that children will get malaria, apparently offering the first effective inoculation against the deadly disease, researchers report.
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Clinical trials are under way in the UK to test how effectively it combats the increasingly drug-resistant malaria parasite. The drug is a synthetic, simpler version of a traditional
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They have reported promising results from a test vaccine that could slash the death toll. 30 per cent and more than halved the risk of getting severe malaria, which can be fatal.
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A new meningitis vaccine offers hope to end devastating epidemics that have plagued West Africa the last century, according to recent studies.
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After more than two decades of research, scientists said Thursday that they had found the first effective vaccine against malaria.
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LONDON -- The first affordable combination anti-malarial drug tailored for children will soon be available across Africa, potentially saving millions of lives, the nonprofit organization and the pharmaceuticals giant who worked to develop it said Thursday.