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A New Treatment Could Prevent HIV
A recent discovery might help people with HIV. A combination of universal voluntary HIV testing and...
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Doctors Told to Be Alert for Childhood Infections during Hib Vaccine Shortage
On Thursday, U.S. health officials urged doctors
to be more vigilant for suspected cases of...
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Fall Babies Have 30 Percent Higher Risk of Developing Asthma
Children born four months before peak flu season are more
likely to develop childhood asthma...
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Gardasil Might Get Clearance For Preventing Genital Warts In Boys
Gardasil can also be given to men as a way to prevent genital warts, a study presented Thursday at...
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Google Flu Trends – A New Tool to Track Flu Outbreaks
Google wants to be more than a giant search engine; it wants to be closer to its users through its...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure AIDS? Or Not?
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
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Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts In Males, Study Reveals
In 2006, Merck & Co.’s Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug...
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CDC: Merck’s Rotateq Lowered Cases of Rotavirus by 80 Percent since Approval
Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
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S. African Health Minister: “We Desperately Need an Effective HIV Vaccine”
South
Africa is the country experiencing one of
the most severe AIDS epidemics in the world....
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Gardasil Vaccination Rate Tops 25 Percent despite Initial Doubts
More girls in the United States are vaccinated with
Gardasil, the vaccine designed to prevent...
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25% Of U.S. Teen Girls Received Protection Against Cervical Cancer
An estimated 25 percent of American teenage girls received
at least one dose of the Gardasil...
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1 in 4 US Teen Girls Received Merck’s HPV Vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that only 25 percent of...
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German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries
Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
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Virus hunters track HIV to 100 years back
Washington - A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the...
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Two Rival Biotech Companies Receive Approval to Develop Anthrax Vaccines
Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and
PharmAthene of Annapolis received separate federal...
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No Influenza This Winter? Better Get Your Shot…
Do you want to be influenza-free this winter? Then, you’d
better contact your health care provider...
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Flu Season Is Almost Here, Get Vaccinated, CDC Recommends
In an attempt to reduce the number of people getting
influenza or dying from it, on Wednesday, the...
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Flu Shots while Pregnant Cut Risk of Infections for You and Your Baby
Mothers-to-be should consider getting a flu shot while
pregnant in order to protect their newborns...
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Results of Anthrax Investigation Called into Question
Bruce E.
Ivins did not act alone. That’s what Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick
Leahy told the...
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What Do Mothers Think About Gardasil Vaccine?
A team of researchers has discovered that mothers' conceptions regarding sex before marriage don't...
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U.S. Department of Justice Is Convinced Ivins Was The Anthrax Killer
According to new evidence released by the government, it seems that Bruce Ivins, the alleged...
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Activists Present AIDS Ads To Increase Pandemic Awareness
At the 17th International AIDS conference, held in the City of Mexico, a ‘planting and eating...
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FBI Reveals New Details in Anthrax Case
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation, used two...
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Prevention Might Lead To Better Outcomes In Fighting HIV
Thursday was a very active day for the 25,000 participants
of the 17th International AIDS...
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FDA Makes This Year’s Flu Vaccines Public
As autumn is approaching, people should be ready to welcome
the flu season. And the best way to do...
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There Is Still Lots To Be Done To Meet Ends In The Fight With AIDS
How to improve HIV treatment and to prevent the spreading of
the virus are two questions that lie...
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AIDS Conference In Mexico Opened For Discussions
An estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians and
activists were present on Sunday at...
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Ivins’ Psychotherapist Says He Was a “Revenge Killer”
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who supposedly killed himself this week, “was going to go out in a...
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The AIDS Battle Continues! Researchers Join Efforts to Find a Vaccine
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Anthrax Attacks Saga Continues; “Suspect” Commits Suicide
Just days before the Justice Department was about to charge
Bruce Ivins, a senior...
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Study: Autumn Babies Are More Prone To Childhood Asthma
Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in...
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Rotateq Slows Down The Rotavirus In Non-Immunized Children
A vaccine against rotavirus, Rotateq, which causes diarrhea
and vomiting in thousands of children...
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Nobel Medicine Prize Goes To Three European Scientists
The 2008 Nobel Prize
for medicine was awarded on Monday. Two French scientists who discovered...
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Anthrax Suspect: Killed By The FBI's Pressure?
Dr. Russell Byrne, a former colleague of scientist Bruce E. Ivins, the government expert who killed...
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The AIDS Battle Continues! Researchers Join Efforts To Find A Vaccine
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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Tobacco Plant Could Aid Patients With Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
The tobacco plant could actually aid
patients with follicular B-cell lymphoma, US researchers...
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Large Human Trial Of HIV Vaccine Canceled By NIAID
The National Institutes of Health on Thursday canceled a US human trial
of a human...
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A New Patch To Fight Traveler’s Diarrhea
According to a study published in the medical journal the
Lancet, a patch impregnated with the...
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Scientists Report A New Method To Create Human Antibodies
The U.S researchers have discovered a new technology to
identify and clone human antibodies...
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Scientists Map Worldwide Journey of Seasonal Flu
Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery of
where seasonal flu viruses originate and...
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The First Malaysian Astronaut Arrives At ISS
The Soyuz capsule TMA-11, carrying the Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor,
along...
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Salmonella Grown in Space is Several Times Deadlier
A study has found that Salmonella grown during the Atlantis space-shuttle mission STS-115 in 2006...
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Researchers Claim They Found The “Skinny” Gene
The researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have
found a new cause for obesity. According...
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Vietnamese Health Officials Fear Dengue Fever Increase
Vietnamese health officials have expressed worries that dengue fever could spread and cause more...
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Singapore Hit With Dengue Fever Epidemic
Singaporean health authorities warn that the current dengue fever making victims in the country has...
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Health
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Extended Drug Therapy for Hepatitis C Doesn’t Work for Some Patients
Patients with chronic hepatitis C who have
not responded to an initial round of antiviral...
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Anti-HIV Drugs – Preventive Effects?
Tens of thousands of people have escaped the so-far certain death brought on by AIDS. The reason...
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HIV Protection: Could Pills Work Wonders Against HIV?
New York /Bethesda, Maryland - Anti-HIV medicines have rescued tens of thousands or perhaps even...
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Antigenics Vaccine for Brain Cancer Shows Promising Results
Biotechnology company Antigenics Inc
announced on Monday that its experimental cancer treatment...
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Trial Shows Antigenics’ Oncophage Extends Survival in Cancer Patients
A small study of patients with brain cancer showed that Antigenics
Inc’s Oncophage vaccine helped...
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Autumn Babies More Likely To Develop Asthma
U.S. researchers concluded on Friday that babies that are born four months before the peak cold and...
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Doctors Should Be Alert During Hib Vaccine Shortage, CDC Says
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on
Thursday urged doctors and health agencies to...
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Autumn Babies Are More Prone To Childhood Asthma
Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in...
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Gardasil HPV Vaccine Might Protect Men Too
Thursday, Merck
and Company, the drug manufacturer behind the Gardasil HPV vaccine, revealed...
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Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts In Males, Study Concludes
In 2006, Merck & Co.’s Gardasil made headlines when it was approved by the Food and Drug...
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Merck’s HPV Vaccine Gardasil Effective in Males
According to the results of a new study
presented this week at the annual meeting of the European...
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Merck’s Gardasil Prevents Genital Warts in Males As Well
Merck’s HPV vaccine Gardasil was found to be effective in
men as well, this time preventing...
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Breakthrough In Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplant Might Cure HIV?
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the...
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CDC: Human Wart Virus HPV Caused 25,000 Cases of Cancer Annually
At least 25,000 cases of cancers associated
with human papillomavirus (HPV) occurred annually in...
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Wyeth: New Version of Prevnar Has Positive Results in Study
A news study presented Monday at the joint annual meeting of
the Interscience Conference on...
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The Gates Foundation Plans to Fund 104 Researchers around the World
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
made public its intention to give 104 grants of $100...
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CDC Calls Merck’s Gardasil Safe
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Immunization Safety Office on Wednesday...
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Flu Shots for Everybody! Take yours!
As winter is just two months away, US health authorities are
more alert than ever and urge...
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Getting a Flu Vaccine, the Best Option for Protection against Influenza
Public health officials are urging people
to get the flu shot needed for protection against...
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Hope for South Africa! “HIV Causes AIDS,” Health Minister Barbara Hogan States
This week, South Africa’s new Health Minister,
Barbara Hogan, said it was unquestionable that HIV...
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U.S. Vaccine Use Increased in 2007
In June 2006, Merck’s drug Gardasil was approved by the FDA.
Gardasil is a drug designed to...
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Genetic Code Of Malaria Parasite Deciphered
About 40 researchers sequenced the genetic code of
Plasmodium vivax, one of four malaria parasites...
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One Quarter of United States Teen Girls Received HPV Vaccine
On
Thursday, federal health officials informed that 25 percent of teen girls in
the United States...
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Report: 25 Percent Of US Teen Girls Got Cervical Cancer Vaccine In 2007
However controversial Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine
Gardasil has been considered since approval,...
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Harald zur Hausen - Nobel honour for cancer research
Berlin - Harald zur Hausen, a German virologist who shared the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday,...
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New TB vaccine offers hope for AIDS patients, German researchers say
Hamburg - An early tuberculosis vaccine dating back to the 1920s has been vastly improved thanks to...
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Study Finds Anthrax Vaccine Works In Fewer Doses
Giving fewer doses of the anthrax vaccine
could be just as effective, offering protection from the...
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PharmAthene Awarded With $83.9 Contract
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Flu Season Continues to Pose a Major Health Threat
Despite annual vaccinations, the U.S.
faces a burden of influenza that results in thousands of...
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Two Biotech Companies Are to Develop Anthrax Vaccines
Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and PharmAthene of Annapolis are two biotech companies that have...
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