World’s first malaria vaccine on course for 2015
It's actually happening Good news - encouraging results from the longest and largest trial of a malaria vaccine could see ...
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New Treatment for Gonorrhea Acts like a Vaccine, Preventing Reinfection
A first step has been taken towards an effective treatment for Gonorrhea - with drug resistant strains on the rise, ...
Scientists Discover Blueprint for (almost) Universal Flu Vaccine
Digital illustration of the flu virus. It may not seem like it, but the influenza (flu) virus is one of ...
Cancer vaccine with 50% regression rate in mice enters clinical trial
A cross-disciplinary team of scientists at Harvard that developed a novel type of vaccine for treating melanoma - the most ...
Breakthroughs against malaria: highly effective vaccine developed; meanwhile, anti-malaria soap wins prize
Some 300 million cases of malaria are reported each year in Africa, the continent where the disease is still running ...
Vaccine that works for newborns might save millions of babies
Babies need to wait until they're at least two months old for vaccines to work, which leaves a lot of ...
DNA vaccines could prove to be safer, easier and better than traditional method
Vaccines have become synonymous to needles, and for a lot of people they're the subject of horror stories since childhood. Typically, a ...
Octopus with venom that works in freezing temperatures discovered
Boy, you just can't have enough octopus, that's for sure - they're really amazing creatures, that often surprise us. Now, ...
Ten billion dollars pledged for vaccines
Yesterday, Bill Gates officially announced he will donate 10 billlion dollars for a 10 year effort to boost vaccination against ...
Bacteria wouldn’t go for a swine flu shot
Just like many categories of people, I've recently been (insistently) offered a free flu shot. I said no. Without going ...
AIDS vaccine shows success for the first time
AIDS is one of the most dangerous diseases nowadays, being a pandemic for many years now, and there's been quite ...
Current flu vaccines inactive against the Swine flu
For some reason, many people believed the current flu vaccine will be effective against this swine flu that's already expanding ...
