First vaccine for meningitis B
by Gary Finnegan – EMA Highlights – The EMA has given the green light to a new vaccine for bacterial meningitis. Bexsero, by Novartis, provides broad coverage against… read more.
by Gary Finnegan – EMA Highlights – The EMA has given the green light to a new vaccine for bacterial meningitis. Bexsero, by Novartis, provides broad coverage against… read more.
by Gary Finnegan – World Health Matters (Australia) – Click here for more information Melbourne researchers are using Australia’s fasted supercomputer to simulate the motion of the complete… read more.
by Gary Finnegan – World Health Matters (Canada) – Influenza vaccination rates vary widely in Canada depending on ethnicity, according to a new study in the Canadian Medical… read more.
by Maria Dalby – It is possible to modulate the body’s immune system by altering the gut microbiota, simply by changing the diet.
In the United States, one in 10 children suffers from asthma but the potential environmental factors contributing to the disease are not well known.
by Thomas R. Collins – Antibodies play diverse roles in the human body — they can be anti-inflammatory, they can modulate the immune system, and they can be protective… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – BOSTON — The transplantation community turned to a somewhat unlikely source for insight here as immunologist James Allison, PhD, Chairman of the Immunology Program… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – taken from The Lancet – Young children with suspected serious bacterial infection treated with zinc and standard antibiotics have achieved a significantly reduced rat… read more.
by Thomas R. Collins – Injection of regulatory T cells could prove to be a powerful method of inducing tolerance among liver transplantation patients,
Loyola researchers are reporting surprising findings about a molecule that helps ramp up the immune system in some cases and suppress it in others. The finding eventually could… read more.
by Maria Dalby reporting on the presentation by Miriam Manook et al, Guy’s Hospital, London. Adequate training of transplant surgeons is essential for good clinical outcomes. Although surgical… read more.
FDA Highlights – by Bruce Sylvester – The human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine can help prevent anal cancer in men, researchers reported in the October 27, 2011, issue… read more.
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