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New Research Advances Development of Universal Flu Vaccine

A new approach for immunizing against influenza elicited a more potent immune response and broader protection than the currently licensed seasonal influenza vaccines when tested in mice and ferrets. The vaccine concept, which was developed by scientists at the National ...More

4 hours ago

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Study Finds New Pneumococcal Vaccine Appears to be as Safe as Previously Used Vaccine

The new 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) appears to be as safe as the previous version used prior to 2010, the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7), according to a Kaiser Permanente study published in the journal Vaccine. The Food and Drug ...More

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Study Explores Providers' Perceptions of Parental Concerns About HPV Vaccination

A new Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) study has found that low-income and minority parents may be more receptive to vaccinating their daughters against human papillomavirus (HPV), while white, middle-class parents are more likely to defer the vaccination. The ...More

2 weeks ago

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JAMA Viewpoint Examines Challenges in Providing Vaccine for Avian Influenza A(H7N9)

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published a Viewpoint, “Major Challenges in Providing an Effective and Timely Pandemic Vaccine for Influenza A(H7N9),” by Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and colleagues. ...More

2 weeks ago

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Lyme Disease Vaccine Shows Promise in Clinical Trial

The results of a phase 1/2 clinical trial in Europe of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine co-developed by researchers at Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and at Baxter International Inc., a U.S.-based healthcare company, revealed it to be ...More

2 weeks ago

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Genome Sequencing Provides Unprecedented Insight Into Causes of Pneumococcal Disease

A new study led by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK has, for the first time, used genome sequencing technology to track the changes in a bacterial population following the introduction of a vaccine. ...More

3 weeks ago

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Focus on STDs, Not Cancer Prevention, to Promote HPV Vaccine Use

The HPV vaccine can prevent both cervical cancer and a nasty sexually transmitted disease in women. But emphasizing the STD prevention will persuade more young women to get the vaccine, a new study suggests. These results go against the conventional wisdom that scaring ...More

4 weeks ago

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2 Doses of HPV Vaccine in Girls May Offer Similar Protection as 3 Doses in Young Women

With the number of doses and cost of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines a barrier to global implementation, researchers have found that girls who received two doses of HPV vaccine had immune responses to HPV-16 and HPV-18 infection that were noninferior to the responses ...More

4 weeks ago

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NIH Study Offers Clues to Making Vaccine for Infant Respiratory Illness

An atomic-level snapshot of a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) protein bound to a human antibody represents a leap toward developing a vaccine for a common—and sometimes very serious—childhood disease. The findings, by scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and ...More

5 weeks ago

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Researchers Develop Web 2.0 Apps to Share Vaccine Study

In a manuscript published today in Immunity, scientists at the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR) and the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason report the results of a comparative study of the molecular immune responses to influenza and pneumococcal ...More

April 19, 2013

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