In the on-going battle against HIV/AIDS, vaccine developers are continually trying to find ways to promote immunity from this devastating virus. Fortunately, researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the...
Any decision to mass-produce vaccines against H7N9 flu will not be taken lightly, since it will mean sacrificing production of seasonal shots. And scientists warn it will take months to get any finished bird flu vaccine...
Chinese health officials yesterday announced three severe respiratory infections, two of them fatal, from H7N9 influenza, a subtype that has not been known to infect humans before. The announcement of the H7N9...
The varicella vaccine has been largely successful in neutralizing chicken pox, scientists say. The 14-year study by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center followed 7,585 children who were vaccinated in 1995, when...
The number of Chinese students infected with HIV increased by 24.5 percent year-on-year in 2012, and sex between men was the main cause of the new infections, a senior health expert said. There were 1,700 students...
Sixty years after the first successful polio vaccine trial, the disease has been wiped out in much of the world, but violence, conspiracy theories and lack of cash keep it from disappearing. “The world is closer than...
Influenza has killed 105 children this year, federal officials reported on Friday, and almost none of them had been vaccinated against the virus. That’s triple the number who died during last year’s flu season. But flu...
A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has unveiled a new technique for vaccine design that could be particularly useful against HIV and...
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a component of the herpesvirus that “hijacks” machinery inside human cells, allowing the virus to rapidly and successfully invade the nervous system upon...
British scientists have developed a “holy grail” vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease that is safer and more resilient than current vaccines, according to an article published in the journal PLOS Pathogens on Wednesday...