UK Develops Cheap Child Vaccine for World's Poor
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British scientists have developed a new way of storing childhood vaccines without refrigeration in a move that could slash costs and increase access to life-savings shots in poor countries.
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NEW YORK  - Routine pneumococcal vaccination of infants in developing countries is estimated to be highly cost-effective and associated with a marked reduction in childhood mortality, according to a study in The Lancet.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates's foundation and the government of Norway yesterday gave grants of more than $1 billion to immunize children in poor countries against common diseases -- a blockbuster philanthropic gesture intended to save hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa and Asia.
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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 low-cost antibiotic should be given to all children with HIV (news - web sites) in developing countries to prevent infections such as pneumonia and reduce deaths, scientists said on Friday.
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British finance minister Gordon Brown  will propose Wednesday giving $1.8 billion over the next 15  years to a campaign to get life-saving vaccines to millions of  children in poor countries.
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Cheap dietary supplements could protect young children from malaria, a study suggests.
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Scientists say they have developed an effective vaccine against malaria that could be ready in six years.
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Rich nations pledged $200 million to fight diseases in poor countries on Wednesday, promising to slash the time it takes to get new vaccines to needy children and save more than a million lives a year.
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Drug maker Merck &amp; Co. plans to donate enough doses of its cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, to inoculate 1 million women in some of the world's poorest countries.
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An international health partnership aimed at directing medical assistance more effectively to some of the world's poorest countries will be launched by Gordon Brown today.
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Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia will   vaccinate nearly 3 million children against polio in a bid to   stamp out the paralyzing disease, which has re-emerged in the   Horn of Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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For the first time in medical history, scientists have developed a malaria vaccine that has shown promise in a large scale trial conducted in Mozambique.
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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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An experimental vaccine can slash the risk that children will get malaria, apparently offering the first effective way to inoculate youngsters against one of the world&#39;s biggest, most intractable killers, researchers reported today.
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LONDON - Scientists have made important progress in the quest for a malaria vaccine, showing for the first time that childhood shots can prevent nearly one-third of cases and slash the risk of severe, life-threatening attacks by almost two-thirds.    Experts say the findings, outlined this week in The Lancet medical journal, provide robust evidence that the dream of developing a vaccine that will get babies through the most vulnerable period of infancy could become a reality by the end of the decade...
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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