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Malaria vaccine can prevent 300,000 children’s deaths – UNICEF

Following the successful trial of a new malaria vaccine currently developed and tested in the United States, the United Nations Children Education Fund, (UNICEF), has described it as a welcome development. According to...

15 August, 2013

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Human trials using a leukaemia virus to fight advanced skin cancer are on track to start in Adelaide later this year

In a national first, researchers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s Centre for Cancer Biology intend to tweak the body’s own defensive cells to target cancer by genetically engineering them into search and...

15 August, 2013

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Researchers create more effective Salmonella-based vaccines

Scientists are working to improve the effectiveness of a Recombinant Attenuated Salmonella Vaccine by modifying its ability to survive the hostile stomach environment, according to a recent study published in the...

12 August, 2013

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Malaria vaccine found safe and protective

A team of researchers found an investigational malaria vaccine has to be safe, to generate an immune system response, and to offer protection against malaria infection in healthy adults. Malaria is transmitted to humans...

12 August, 2013

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CDC raises alarm that HPV vaccine Is ‘grossly underutilized’

Only a third of American teenage girls 13 to 17 were fully vaccinated against human papillomavirus virus (HPV) in 2012, a figure that declined somewhat in comparison with 2011, The New York Times reports. HPV is a main...

5 August, 2013

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Researchers develop global hepatitis C recommendations for injection-drug users

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 12,000 people die every year from HCV-related liver disease. A researcher from Miriam Hospital has teamed up with an international panel of...

2 August, 2013

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New modular vaccine design combines best of existing vaccine technologies

MAPS technology may generate vaccines conferring strong immunity at reduced cost and risk. A new method of vaccine design, called the Multiple Antigen Presentation System (MAPS), may result in vaccines that bring...

2 August, 2013

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Study: MERS virus may be deadlier than SARS

The new respiratory virus that emerged in the Middle East last year appears to make people sicker faster than SARS, but doesn’t seem to spread as easily, according to the latest detailed look at about four dozen...

31 July, 2013

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Adult HPV vaccination has limited impact

The Costa Rica Vaccine Trial for human papillomavirus (HPV) in young women has had a “modest” impact on gynecologic outcomes in the first few years of the program. Data shows that the impact of vaccination on rates of...

29 July, 2013

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Virus findings ‘not strong enough’ to affect strategy

A recent study that suggests the H7N9 avian influenza virus may be highly transmissible among humans is not strong enough to lead to any changes in the current H7N9 epidemic intervention strategy, said a senior Chinese...

29 July, 2013

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