Vaccination

Not enough health care workers vaccinated against seasonal influenza

harminka — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:13:52 -0500

Less than one third of healthcare workers have themselves vaccinated against classic influenza. This reluctance is astounding, firstly because vaccination against influenza viruses is considered safe and effective and secondly because it has been proved to prevent nosocomial transmission of disease to patients—provided at least 50% of employees have been vaccinated.

Cancer Vaccine Efficacy Enhanced Using Anti-Diabetic Drug Metformin

harminka — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:07:00 -0500

After a vaccination or an infection, the human immune system remembers to keep protecting against invaders it has already encountered, with the aid of specialized B-cells and T-cells. Immunological memory has long been the subject of intense study, but the underlying cellular mechanisms regulating the generation and persistence of long-lived memory T cells remain largely undefined.

New Vaccine Protect Against Ear Infections

harminka — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:05:25 -0500

An experimental vaccine applied the surface of the skin appears to protect against certain types of ear infections. Scientists from the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, report their findings today at the 109th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Philadelphia.

New test may help to ensure that dengue vaccines do no harm

harminka — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:42:50 -0600

As vaccines against a virus that infects 100 million people annually reach late-stage clinical trials this year, researchers have developed a test to better predict whether a given vaccine candidate should protect patients from the infection, or in some cases, make it more dangerous, according to an article just published in the journal Clinical and Vaccine Immunology.

Parents of new babies should be considered for a whooping cough booster

harminka — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:29:40 -0600

A booster vaccination for parents of new babies and other household members may be the most effective way of preventing the fatal form of whooping cough in young infants, say a group of paediatric intensive care doctors on bmj.com today.

Minor shift in vaccine schedule has potential to reduce infant illness

harminka — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:01:14 -0600

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University suggests that protecting infants from a common, highly contagious and even deadly disease may be as easy as administering a routine vaccine two weeks earlier than it is typically given.

Flu shot protects kids even during years with bad vaccine match

harminka — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:55:48 -0600

Vaccine could prevent 2,250 pediatric hospitalizations and 650,000 office visits

New DNA-based vaccine against West Nile virus

harminka — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:21:21 -0600

Researchers are developing a DNA-based vaccine against the dreaded West Nile virus (WNV), which can be transmitted from animals to humans. The unique feature of this vaccine is that it is also effective after onset of the disease, for it has therapeutic properties.

UCSB researchers develop cross-protective vaccine

harminka — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:56:53 -0500

Doctors have always hoped that scientists might one day create a vaccination that would treat a broad spectrum of maladies. They could only imagine that there might be one vaccine that would protect against, say, 2,500 strains of Salmonella. And what if that same vaccine could help protect the elderly?

Francisella tularensis: Stopping biological weapon

harminka — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:23:21 -0500

Scientists hope a vaccine is on the horizon for tularemia, a fatal disease caused by the pathogen Francisella tularensis, an organism of concern as a potential biological warfare agent. Until recently we knew very little about this bacterium.

Booster vaccination may help with possible future avian influenza pandemic

harminka — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:44:12 -0500

New evidence suggests that a booster vaccination against H5N1 avian influenza given years after initial vaccination with a different strain may prove useful in controlling a potential future pandemic. The study is published in the August 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online.

Gender, time of day affect response to vaccination

harminka — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:08:23 -0500

A new study in the journal Psychophysiology reveals that men, but not women, vaccinated in the morning produced a better peak antibody response to both hepatitis A and the influenza strain.