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• Vaccinated Kids Protect Whole Family
  ...School-Based Flu Vaccine Programs for Children Protect Communities, Study Says...
  ABC News - Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:15 EST
  
• Vaccinating Advanced Prostate Cancer Patients With PSCA & PSA Peptide-loaded Dendritic Cells Induces DTH Responses That Correlate With Superior Overal
  ...Prostate cancer stem cell antigen (PSCA) and PSA are over-expressed in most prostate cancers (CaP). Dr. Thomas-Kaskel and colleagues from Freiburg, Germany report on a dendritic cell (CD) vaccine using PSCA and PSA in the early view version of the International Journal of Cancer. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were cultured in the laboratory and transformed into DCs using cytokines. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:00 EST
  
• Vaccinating Against Cervical Cancer
  ...Since last year, it has become possible to vaccinate against the human papillomavirus (HPV) that causes most cases of cervical cancer, but countries face tough decisions before making the vaccine widely available. The excitement surrounding the HPV vaccine is not surprising given that half a million women a year develop cervical cancer and half of those die as a result. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Vaccinating Poultry And Other Birds Against Avian Influenza - Questions And Answers - EU
  ...What are the advantages of vaccinating birds against avian influenza? Vaccination reduces the risk of birds becoming infected with the avian influenza virus, and lowers the chances of the virus being introduced into a vaccinated holding, as a higher amount of the virus is needed before a vaccinated bird will become infected... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Vaccination Increases Survival In Lymphoma Patients
  ... Idiotypic vaccination can increase the survival times of follicular lymphoma patients.Considered incurable, follicular lymphoma is often treated with chemotherapy, but patients always relapse. Vaccines designed to illicit an immune response in an individual patient, called idiotype vaccines, have not been proven to have clinical benefit. Maurizio Bendandi, M.D., Ph.D. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:00 EST
  
• Vaccination Of Nursing Home Staff, Residents, Key To Reducing Flu Outbreak
  ...Potentially deadly influenza outbreaks in nursing homes are less likely to occur when large numbers of staff and residents get flu shots, according to a study issued today by the RAND Corporation. The study by the nonprofit research organization found that nursing homes were 60 percent less likely to have a cluster of influenza-like illnesses if more than 55 percent of the staff and more than 89 percent of the residents were vaccinated for influenza....
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 27 Dec 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Vaccination Of Nursing Home Staff, Residents, Key To Reducing Flu Outbreak, RAND Study Finds
  ...Potentially deadly influenza outbreaks in nursing homes are less likely to occur when large numbers of staff and residents get flu shots, according to a study issued on 15-Nov-2006 by the RAND Corporation. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:00 EST
  
• Vaccination Programmes With Gardasil® Could Cost-effectively Prevent Up To 91% Of Vaccine Virus Type Related Cervical Cancer
  ...Compared with current practice, vaccinating 70% of young girls before the age of 12 with Gardasil® could reduce the incidence of cervical cancer due to human papillomavirus types 16 and 18 in the entire population by 78%. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:00 EST
  
• Vaccination Tames Hepatitis A Infection
  ...Title: Vaccination Tames Hepatitis A InfectionCategory: Health NewsCreated: 7/13/2005 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 7/13/2005 1:58:14 AM...
  MedicineNet - Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:00 EST
  
• Vaccination With Embryonic Stem Cells Prevents Lung Cancer In Mice
  ...Researchers have discovered that vaccinating mice with embryonic stem cells prevented lung cancer in those animals that had had cancer cells transplanted into them after the vaccination or that had been exposed to cancer-causing chemicals, the 18th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics heard on Wednesday....
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:00 EST
  
• Vaccination With Embryonic Stem Cells Prevents Lung Cancer In Mice
  ...Prague, Czech Republic: Researchers in America have discovered that vaccinating mice with embryonic stem cells prevented lung cancer in those animals that had had cancer cells transplanted into them after the vaccination or that had been exposed to cancer-causing chemicals. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:00 EST
  
• Vaccination With Embryonic Stem Cells Prevents Lung Cancer In Mice
  ...Researchers in America have discovered that vaccinating mice with embryonic stem cells prevented lung cancer in those animals that had had cancer cells transplanted into them after the vaccination or that had been exposed to cancer-causing chemicals. [click link for full article]...
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:00 EST
  
• Vaccine 'tackles kidney cancer'
  ...A kidney cancer vaccine shows promise after completely eradicating one patient's tumour....
  BBC - Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:50 EST
  
• Vaccine against biowarfare agent shows promise
  ... NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. researchers have developed a genetically engineered vaccine against ricin, a highly lethal toxin derived from castor beans, which appears safe and stimulates an immune response at high doses, according to the results of a small study....
  Reuters - Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:51 EST
  
• Vaccine against biowarfare agent shows promise
  ... NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. researchers have developed a genetically engineered vaccine against ricin, a highly lethal toxin derived from castor beans, which appears safe and stimulates an immune response at high doses, according to the results of a small study....
  Reuters - Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:12 EST
  
• Vaccine against cervical cancer most effective in 10- to 14-year-olds
  ...Cervarix, a vaccine that protects against cervical cancer caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV), is the most effective when administered to girls between the ages of 10 to 14 years, its maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said in Washington while presenting the results of the phase III trials of the vaccine....
  The Earth Times - Mon, 19 Dec 2005 01:02 EST
  
• Vaccine against cervical cancer to be available by 2007
  ...Australian scientists have announced that they have developed a vaccine that will protect women from cervical cancer. Cervical cancer is caused by a viral infection caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) and it is this trait that has been used by the scientists in developing the vaccine....
  The Earth Times - Fri, 06 May 2005 09:28 EST
  
• Vaccine Against Childhood Pneumonia Shows Promise
  ...A vaccine against pneumonia and invasive pneumococcal disease, a severe form of bacterial infection, can substantially reduce hospital admissions and improve the survival of children in developing countries, concludes a trial published in the March 26, 2005 issue of THE LANCET. The authors believe the vaccine should be made available to children in Africa, where rates of severe invasive pneumococcal disease are up to ten times higher than in industrialised countries....
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:00 EST
  
• Vaccine Against Early Stage Malaria Shows Real Potential, Review Finds
  ...An experimental vaccine that attacks the malaria parasite in its early stages prevents a significant number of malaria cases, and should move closer to licensing and widespread use, according to a new review of recent studies....
  ScienceDaily - Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:00 EST
  
• Vaccine Against H5N1 (Avian Influenza) Manufactured For Clinical Development, PowderMed
  ...PowderMed, the immunotherapeutics company focused on the development and manufacture of DNA-based vaccines for viral diseases and cancer, has announced that it has progressed its H5N1 Avian influenza vaccine programme into the final stages of preclinical development... click link for more info....
  MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:00 EST