Soldiers&#39; blood used to create experimental anthrax treatment
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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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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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WASHINGTON Sept. 9, 2004 - Could that ancient practice of bleeding patients really have done some good? A scientist says new research on how germs thrive in the body suggests it just may have for some people.
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A method for producing red blood cells in the laboratory could one day help solve the shortage of donated blood. University of Paris researchers have developed a way to produce large numbers of cells.
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Scientists say they have made a blocker that could stop the lethal anthrax toxin from attacking the body.
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Immunization through the skin, using a patch, protects mice against normally lethal inhaled doses of anthrax bacteria, according to a new report.
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The federal government ordered a new $877 million anthrax vaccine last month, but the vaccine is still unproven in humans.
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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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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia  - Authorities are testing a suspicious powder mailed to the U.S. Embassy in Malaysia to determine whether it's anthrax, officials said Monday. It's the second such scare at a U.S. mission in Asia within a week.
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U.S. health officials said on Friday they approved a new device that could help save the arms and legs of injured soldiers and trauma victims.
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Government scientists turned regular blood cells into tumor attackers that wiped out all signs of cancer in two men with advanced melanoma. The striking finding, unveiled Thursday, marks an important step in the quest for gene therapy for cancer.
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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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The ancient practice of bleeding patients might actually have helped fight some infections, University of Chicago scientists have found.
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Thousands of people were told yesterday that they might have been infected with the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy through contaminated blood plasma products.
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - An Air Force flight engineer  charged in a lawsuit on Thursday that the U.S. military  violated his civil rights when it punished him for complaining  about the dangers of the anthrax vaccine.
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An African musician and a family member both contracted a non-contagious form of anthrax, apparently from imported animal skins used to make drums, officials said Wednesday.
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An unexpectedly high number of US soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday.