Immune System/Vaccines News

Take Care Health Systems Offers Shingles Vaccine Nationwide

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:40:02 GMT

Take Care Health Systems, one of the largest managers of convenient care clinics and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG), is now administering the shingles vaccine at all 177 Take Care Health Clinics located at Walgreens drugstores in 19 markets throughout 14 states.

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Successes In Global Immunisation Boost Progress Towards UN Millennium Development Goals

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:20:03 GMT

A revitalised global effort to improve immunisation programmes and strengthen health systems in the poorest countries is saving an increasing number of lives and making a significant impact towards achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals.

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World's Top Vaccine Scientists To Discuss The Latest Research

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:20:04 GMT

Vaccines are critical tools in the fight to prevent high-burden infectious diseases in all age groups living in both industrialized and developing countries.

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Nventa Develops Proprietary Vaccine Adjuvant

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:20:03 GMT

Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: NVN) announced that the company has developed a proprietary vaccine adjuvant, Poly IC-Poly Arginine (Poly-ICR), that has broad potential for use in both therapeutic and prophylactic vaccines.

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A Single VSOP Can Do A 'Proton' Magic!

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:00:04 GMT

International research group led by Yasushi Okamura, a professor in Japanese National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, and Peter Larsson, a professor in Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon, US, found that a single protein of VSOP, Voltage Sensor Only Protein/ Hv1, can carry protons even without making a multimeric complex.

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Identification Of Immune Molecule That Plays A Powerful Role In Avoiding Organ Rejection

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:20:20 GMT

When a mouse's immune system is deciding whether to reject a skin graft, one powerful member of a molecular family designed to provoke such a response can effectively reduce the visibility of the mouse's own cells and help the graft survive, researchers say.

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Discovery Rewrites Current Scientific Understanding Of How The Body Responds To Viruses

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:20:16 GMT

La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology (LIAI) scientists have discovered one for the textbooks. Their finding, reported in the scientific journal Immunity, illuminates a new, previously unknown mechanism in how the body fights a virus.

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Clue To How Dysentery Parasite Might Evade Immune System Discovered By Johns Hopkins Researchers

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:04 GMT

Every year, about 500 million people worldwide are infected with the parasite that causes dysentery, a global medical burden that among infectious diseases is second only to malaria.

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Romiplostim Data Show Potential Long-Term Efficacy And Safety In Adults With Chronic ITP

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:03 GMT

Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced updated results from the ongoing, open-label extension study on the long-term safety and efficacy of romiplostim in adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), a chronic and serious autoimmune disorder characterized by low platelet counts in the blood.

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Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics S.r.l. Withdraws Its Marketing Authorisation Application For The Pre-pandemic Vaccine Aflunov, Europe

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:02 GMT

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has been formally notified by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics S.

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