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Vaccine has sharply reduced HPV in teenage girls, study says

A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus’s prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers said. Even for...

23 February, 2016

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Studies show pneumococcal vaccines’ protection varies

Three new reports, including a population study in Africa and two meta-analyses, suggest that pneumococcal vaccines provide moderate protection against invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in children and adults but only...

19 February, 2016

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Scientists piggyback experimental HIV vaccine on cold viruses

Scientists report progress in their bid to develop ways to piggyback an HIV vaccine on germs that cause colds. In the new study, Harvard researchers said they successfully used cold viruses to deliver an experimental...

19 February, 2016

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Path to Zika vaccine strewn with hurdles

The world is once again asking scientists and drugmakers to come up rapidly with a vaccine for a viral disease that, in the latest case, few people had heard of until a few weeks ago, and even fewer feared. Making a...

19 February, 2016

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Using price to avoid vaccine shortages

No one worries about vaccine supply—until there’s a shortage. New research from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business studied the market tensions that can keep manufacturers out of the business and the...

15 February, 2016

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ACIP updates vaccination guidelines for 2016

Changes to vaccination protocols against meningococcal serotype B (MenB) and human papillomavirus (HPV) are some of the most significant in the 2016 immunization schedule released recently by the Advisory Committee on...

15 February, 2016

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Zika vaccine: Why developing one will take years in a skewed system

When microbiologist Maurice Hilleman was testing his revolutionary mumps vaccine in the 1960s, parents allowed their children to participate in the clinical trial in a simple way: They signed their names on an index...

11 February, 2016

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The race is on to develop a Zika vaccine

Drugmakers globally are racing to produce a vaccine for Zika, the mosquito-borne virus that has been linked to severe birth defects. The World Health Organization has warned the disease is spreading explosively through...

5 February, 2016

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Mathematics joins biology in nanoparticle vaccine design

Researchers at the Universities of York and Torino have used mathematics as a tool to provide precise details of the structure of protein nanoparticles, potentially making them more useful in vaccine design. Working...

5 February, 2016

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Drug that could aid in vaccine development activates innate immune system in a novel way

A new drug with the potential to aid in vaccine development has been identified by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center. “The drug we made appears safe, and boosts immunity in mice. Therefore, the drug...

3 February, 2016

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