New vaccine delivery methods through the lungs offer particular advantages for protection against infectious agents that enter the body through a respiratory track, a new study has revealed. An added benefit to the...
Specialised immune cells, discovered by Australian researchers, could become instrumental in designing an anti-tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, says a study. The joint study by the Australian universities of Melbourne and...
An international research consortium plans to begin testing four new HIV vaccines in 2014 in a province of South Africa where the infection rate is among the highest in the world. The unusual effort to test several...
The new coronavirus – the subject of countless, often-panicky, news reports – now has a name. Researchers in England are calling it London1_novel CoV2012. But there’s not a lot else that can be said...
Adding to evidence that the flu shot is safe for pregnant women, a new study finds no link between the vaccine and the risk of serious birth defects. The study of nearly 9,000 pregnant women who got the flu shot found...
New Zealand researchers are inching closer to creating a world-first oral tuberculosis vaccine. TB kills more people worldwide than any other bacterial disease – latest estimates show about 1.4 million people died...
The World Health Organization is keeping a close eye on a disease outbreak in Saudi Arabia caused by a virus in the same family as the one that caused SARS. There have been two confirmed infections with the new...
Countries in Southeast Asia are going through unprecedented economic growth despite global economic uncertainties. To be able to maintain this upward trend countries need to secure the health of their citizens _...
One of the major arguments levied against vaccination is the woefully low rate of efficacy and effectiveness of many vaccines. Just published in the journal Nature Biotechnology is the discovery of a new compound which...
Scientists have discovered an important mechanism in which a synthetic DNA targets the immune system that could significantly improve the effectiveness of future vaccines. This cutting edge research was published...