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Tag: Vaccine
New Lyme disease vaccine being researched at MassBiologics
A new preventative vaccine for Lyme disease is being worked upon that could provide protection to people for about six months—the period when Lyme-transmitting ticks are active. Being developed by researchers at…
Effectiveness of flu vaccines revealed – just 34% effective in young adults
In a new report the Public Health England (PHE) has revealed some startling number about the effectiveness of the 2014 to 2015 flu vaccine. While the effectiveness of the vaccine against influenza…
Siblings said to be primary source of whopping cough infection in infants
Infants are more likely to catch whopping cough or pertussis from their siblings rather than their moms, a new study based on government data has suggested. The study, published in the journal…
Research ups hope for more effective, long-lasting flu vaccine
Influenza threat is one that keeps evolving every year rendering vaccines ineffective and completely useless – something that researchers have long been trying to address. In a new research that has upped…
MERS vaccine could be on the horizon
A vaccine for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus could be on the horizon with scientists revealing that a vaccine developed using synthetic DNA successfully induced protective immunity in animals against…
Canadian Ebola vaccine looks promising
An Ebola vaccine developed by Public Health Agency of Canada and currently in phase III trials in Guinea has shown promising results and chances are it could be the vaccine the world…
Study confirms theory that ‘leaky’ vaccines support evolution of dangerous viruses
Researchers have confirmed for the first time ever that ‘leaky’ or ‘imperfect’ vaccines enable viruses to evolve into more dangerous variants that put unvaccinated individuals at greater risk of more severe versions…
GSK’s malaria candidate vaccine Mosquirix garners EMA’s nod
One of world’s leading pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) revealed that its malaria candidate vaccine Mosquirix also known as RTS,S has landed European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) positive scientific opinion for children aged 6…
Tekmira suspends Ebola vaccine development; says will concentrate on HBV instead
Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation has announced that it is suspending development of its Ebota vaccine and instead will channel all its resources in development of a cure for chronic hepatitis B virus infection….
Parents’ views on vaccines shifting owing to extensive media coverage
A nation-wide pole in the US has found that parents’ views towards vaccines are changing for the better and also provides a view of how vaccines are being perceived in different states….
Are we closing-in on HIV vaccine? New vaccine shows promise in primates
Researchers have revealed success in lab experiments involving non-human primates (NHPs) and a HIV vaccine stating that their their HIV-1 vaccine regimen which involved a viral vector boosted with a purified envelope…
Just a single mutation helped last year’s flu virus to gain advantage over vaccine
Flu vaccine for the year 2014-2015 wasn’t as effective as its predecessors and researchers have finally revealed the reason behind that. According to a study published in Cell Reports just a single…
Single dose of HPV vaccine Cervarix pegged effective against 70% of cervical cancers
A new research based on data combined from two large phase 3 trials published in The Lancet Oncology has claimed that just a single dose of the bivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine…
Researchers develop vaccines for H5N1, H7N9 avian influenza strains
Researchers with Kansas State University have developed vaccines for two new strains of influenza strains – H5N1 and H7N9 – which can be transmitted from poultry to humans. Researchers employed a new…