Diluted Smallpox Vaccine Found Effective
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Diluting smallpox vaccine that is more than 50 years old is almost 100 percent effective, which means the current US stockpile can be expanded if needed, a new study found.
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Scientists find a way to make cells effectively immune to flu and other viruses.
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A vaccine targeting a deadly strain of meningitis proved to be safe and highly effective in protecting African children, researchers said on Friday, raising hope that it may help prevent epidemics that afflict many African countries.
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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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Mumbai, Oct. 15: GlaxoSmithkline (GSK) today announced a breakthrough in malaria vaccine development. This followed encouraging results from a paediatric safety and efficacy clinical trial of the vaccine in Africa.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil  - An experimental vaccine  reduced the presence of the HIV virus by at least 80 percent in  a Brazilian study of 18 infected patients released in the  journal Nature Medicine.
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In a proof-of-concept study published this week in The Lancet, researchers report that GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s RTS,S/AS02A malaria vaccine candidate protected a significant percentage of children against uncomplicated malaria, infection, and even severe forms
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ID Biomedical Corp.   said on Thursday  analysis of a clinical trial of its experimental nasal flu  vaccine showed it helps prevent the illness.
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A vaccine targeting a deadly strain of  meningitis proved to be safe and highly effective in protecting  African children, researchers said on Friday, raising hope that  it may help prevent epidemics that afflict many African  countries.
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NEW YORK  - Immunity against smallpox is retained and can be still be detected for at least 20 years after vaccination. Even people vaccinated in the 1950s may still have a robust immune response after exposure to this serious virus, a research team reports in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
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An experimental vaccine reduced the presence of the HIV virus by at least 80 percent in a Brazilian study of 18 infected patients published on Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine.
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of children in Mozambique, was hardly perfect: It
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A vaccine designed to protect against two strains of the human papillomavirus that are leading causes of cervical cancer has been successful in a major trial.
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NEW YORK  - The supply issues with Prevnar,  a vaccine that protects kids from bacterial infections, have  been resolved and the Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention and other groups are now recommending that doctors  resume giving the full four doses of the vaccine, according to  a report released Thursday.
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The first-phase human test of a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), developed by Chinese scientists, proved that it is safe and effective.
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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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After more than two decades of research, scientists said Thursday that they had found the first effective vaccine against malaria.