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Topic: vaccines

English farmers first to get Merck’s new vaccine for cows and sheep

English farmers first to get Merck’s new vaccine for cows and sheep

May 20, 2013 7:05 pm by | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - British farmers will be the first in Europe to get a vaccine against Schmallenberg virus, a new livestock disease that hit the continent in 2011.Britain's Department for ... Read more
It’s smaller than a fingernail, but this needle- free Nanopatch could be the future of vaccines

It’s smaller than a fingernail, but this needle- free Nanopatch could be the future of vaccines

May 3, 2013 8:57 am by | 1 Comments

This picture shows just one of the intriguing element of a tiny, needle-free drug delivery patch being developed by a startup jointly based in Australia and Cambridge, Massachusetts. That, of ... Read more
Sanofi infant vaccine gets EU approval

Sanofi infant vaccine gets EU approval

April 22, 2013 1:41 am by | 0 Comments

PARIS (Reuters) - French drug maker Sanofi SA said on Monday the European Commission has approved its primary and booster vaccine for infants from six weeks of age.The vaccine protects ... Read more
Mothers welcomed first shipments of free polio vaccine in 1955

Mothers welcomed first shipments of free polio vaccine in 1955

April 21, 2013 6:38 am by | 0 Comments

ST. LOUIS -- Two leaders of a mothers' campaign met the train downtown on April 21, 1955. An express worker handed them the first box of a miracle shipment. "This ... Read more
Heat Biologics gets $5M to usher heat shock protein therapy into phase 2 lung cancer trials

Heat Biologics gets $5M to usher heat shock protein therapy into phase 2 lung cancer trials

April 17, 2013 4:30 pm by | 0 Comments

A company developing an off-the-shelf immunotherapy that it thinks can turn tumors into adjuvant-secreting machines has some fresh capital as it heads into phase 2 clinical trials.Twenty investors have put ... Read more
Another study that will sadly not convince doubters that vaccines do not cause autism

Another study that will sadly not convince doubters that vaccines do not cause autism

March 30, 2013 11:21 am by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is no link between receiving a number of vaccines early in life and autism, researchers said on Friday. In a study slated to appear in ... Read more
Colorado biotech’s latest milestones exemplify big-picture progress toward a dengue vaccine

Colorado biotech’s latest milestones exemplify big-picture progress toward a dengue vaccine

March 21, 2013 9:28 am by | 0 Comments

The tropical disease dengue fever isn’t something we hear or worry about much in the U.S. So when virologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published study ... Read more
Whooping cough vaccine protection wanes

Whooping cough vaccine protection wanes

March 11, 2013 12:39 am by | 0 Comments

Protection against whooping cough starts to weaken a few years after preschool children get their final diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTaP) shot, a new study confirms. The Centers for Disease ... Read more
Narcolepsy link to Glaxo vaccine poses challenge for FDA

Narcolepsy link to Glaxo vaccine poses challenge for FDA

March 7, 2013 5:01 pm by | 0 Comments

(Reuters) - Growing evidence of a link between GlaxoSmithKline Plc's pandemic flu vaccine and an increase in narcolepsy cases among children who received it in Europe, is giving pause to ... Read more
UK study confirms GSK flu shot link to rare sleep disorder

UK study confirms GSK flu shot link to rare sleep disorder

February 26, 2013 6:30 pm by | 0 Comments

GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix swine flu vaccine has been linked to cases of the rare sleep disorder narcolepsy in children in a scientific study in England that confirms similar findings elsewhere in ... Read more
Key TB vaccine trial fails; more waiting in the wings

Key TB vaccine trial fails; more waiting in the wings

February 4, 2013 7:02 am by | 0 Comments

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A highly anticipated study of the first new tuberculosis vaccine in 90 years showed it offered no added benefit over the current vaccine when it came to ... Read more

Vaccine group funds cervical cancer immunizations for women in Asia, Africa

Vaccine group funds cervical cancer immunizations for women in Asia, Africa

February 3, 2013 7:02 pm by | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - The GAVI global vaccines group is to help protect more than 180,000 girls in eight countries across Africa and Asia from cervical cancer by funding immunization projects ... Read more
For elderly in South Florida nursing homes, this flu season could be dangerous

For elderly in South Florida nursing homes, this flu season could be dangerous

February 3, 2013 3:00 pm by | 0 Comments

The flu has charged through 17 Florida nursing homes and long-term care facilities this season, including two in Palm Beach County last month.While the flu can cause aches, fever and ... Read more
Revived search for a TB vaccine may be about to pay off

Revived search for a TB vaccine may be about to pay off

February 2, 2013 2:01 pm by | 0 Comments

CHICAGO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - After nearly 100 years, researchers could be on the verge of finding a vaccine that would eradicate tuberculosis infections, a scourge that kills 1.4 million ... Read more

Public health officials put a handy mobile app to use in mass immunization efforts

Public health officials put a handy mobile app to use in mass immunization efforts

January 30, 2013 8:19 am by | 0 Comments

In the fall of 2011, Health and Human Services CTO Todd Park challenged developers and public health professionals to work together to create mobile apps that would help track, measure ... Read more