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Scientists move closer to long-lasting flu vaccine

As this year’s flu season gathers steam, doctors and pharmacists have a fresh stock of vaccines to offer their patients. The vaccines usually provide strong protection against the virus, but only for a while...

28 December, 2012

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WHO endorses vaccine regulatory system in India after inspection

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has endorsed the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO)’s regulatory works and cleared the functional vaccine regulatory system in the country, after a thorough...

28 December, 2012

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Micro-needle patch may advance world measles vaccination effort

Measles vaccine given with painless and easy-to-administer micro-needle patches can immunize against measles at least as well as vaccine given with conventional hypodermic needles, according to research done by the...

10 December, 2012

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100 millionth person receives lifesaving meningitis vaccine

A revolutionary meningitis vaccine will reach the 100 millionth person this week in a region of Africa that has been plagued by deadly epidemics for more than a century. The milestone will take place in northern...

4 December, 2012

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Scientists question the designation of some emerging diseases

The Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses are commonly referred to as emerging diseases, but leading scientists say these life-threatening viruses have been around for centuries. In a perspective in the Nov. 9 issue of the...

4 December, 2012

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World AIDS Day: No vaccine yet, but recent antibody discoveries spark hope

Dec. 1 has been World AIDS Day, and across the world, patients, activists, families and friends will be gathering, talking, celebrating and hoping. While 2012 has brought some measure of progress to the search for...

4 December, 2012

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Scientists discover unknown proteins of the Herpes virus

Scientists have sequenced the herpes virus genome identifying several hundred previously unknown proteins, paving the way for better understanding of complex mechanisms used by the virus. Researchers from the Max Planck...

26 November, 2012

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A flu vaccine that protects you for life?

As children, we get a number of vaccines that last for years. Why not our annual flu vaccines? Right now, a new flu vaccine is created every year because the proteins on the virus that our immune system can recognize...

26 November, 2012

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New coronavirus related to viruses from bats

The virus that is causing alarm among global public health authorities after it killed a man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia earlier this year and is now linked to two other cases of disease, is a novel type of coronavirus most...

21 November, 2012

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Vaccination against pneumonia protecting millions of children in developing countries

A vaccine against the leading cause of pneumonia is protecting millions of children in developing countries, according to figures compiled to mark the fourth World Pneumonia Day observed on November 12, according to...

19 November, 2012

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