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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 |
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Infectious diseases have always been one of the largest health concerns in the world. |
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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Codonopsis, "the poor man's ginseng," is the dried or fresh root cultivated from the plant Codonopsis pilosula. It is a perennial native to Asia and is found most abundantly in parts of China. |
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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It sounds like the plot of the following blockbuster movie. A third of the world’s population is struck down by a deadly virus that spreads across the globe so fast that there is no time to develop a vaccine. Up to half of those infected – even young, healthful adults – die. |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008 |
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Cats Claw may not be as well known as some other herbs but the defendion it can give to the body and its overall health benefits have seen it rise dramatically in popularity.Let’s take a closer look at Cats Claw and its immense health benefits. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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In 2007, several European countries experienced high numbers of measles cases, notably Switzerland, and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom (UK) and Romania (more than one case per 100,000 population per year). Full data for measles cases in Europe for 2007 can be found on the website of EUVAC. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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In a surprising outcome that overturns the conventional wisdom on the body's immune response to infection, scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that T cells do not start proliferation until up to 3 days after infection. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
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Scientists in the US have developed a drug that defended laboratory mice and monkeys from radiation damage and may one day be used to defend people from the side effects of radiation used in medical procedures like cancer treatments, and even the effects of nuclear weapons. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Wellmune WGP®, a natural immune-enhancing ingredient from Biothera, decreased the incidence of fever and eliminated the need for study subjects to miss work or school because of the cold-like symptoms, researchers reported at the 2008 Experimental Biology yearly meeting. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Despite the widespread use of a second dose of mumps vaccine in the US, the largest outbreak for 2 decades happened in 2006, prompting calls for a more effective vaccine or changes in policy. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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Recent studies have suggested an association between chronic inflammation and cancers of the prostate, colon, stomach and liver. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved meaningful puzzles concerning how certain proteins guide the reproduction of bacteria, discoveries that could lead to a new type of antibiotics. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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A new research study being conducted at The Wesley Research Institute (WRI) aims to stop the progression of early active stage Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in its tracks. There are presently more than 2.5 million people worldwide with MS, a chronic disease that affects the central nervous system. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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The journal Respirology has launched a special supplementary issue on the avian influenza. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
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Protection against vaccine-preventable diseases is not only recommended for children. Adults, too, need defendion. |
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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News stories about an allegedly dangerous link between the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine and the onset of autism had small effect on whether U.S. parents immunized their children, according to a review of immunization records and news stories. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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informa Healthcare, one of the premier medical scientific publishers in the United States, will publish this week a full bench-to- bedside guide to cancer vaccines in development. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq:GNVC) announced that it has received a Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the company's malaria vaccine program. |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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Monday, 07 April 2008 |
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A promising vaccine being tested for Alzheimer's disease does what it is designed to do - clear beta-amyloid plaques from the brain - but it does not seem to help restore lost learning and memory abilities, according to a University of California, Irvine study. |
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Friday, 04 April 2008 |
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By administering 2 doses of an oral, live, attenuated human rotavirus to Latin American infants during the first 2 years of life, scientists were able to effectively fight severe rotavirus gastroenteritis for up to 2 years. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
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AVANT Immunotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVAN) announced that the double-blind, placebo-controlled multi-center Phase 2 clinical trial of its typhoid fever vaccine candidate, Ty800, met all primary endpoints. |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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The recent "failure" of a Merck HIV/AIDS vaccine has "led to 2 conflicting calls for action, neither of which got it right," a Los Angeles Timeseditorial says. |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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The European Medicines Agency has decided to grant fee reductions to all applications for inactivated vaccines against Bluetongue, on the basis of the recent epidemiological situation in relation to Bluetongue, the lack of authorised vaccines in the market and the potential impact to animal health. |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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Researchers studying deer mice have discovered evidence to support what mothers everywhere have long suspected: the immune system requires food to function properly. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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Lebanon started a national anti-measles and anti-rubella vaccination campaign targeting more than 900,000 children, as part of its commitment to the UNICEF and World Health Organization (WHO) strategy to eliminate the diseases by the end of 2010. |
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008 |
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The Sabin Vaccine Institute (SVI) has announced a $9.2 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a global advocacy effort to help countries finance their national immunization systems. |
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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The vast majority of Scottish people interviewed in the streets of Edinburgh are unaware of one of the greatest achievements of medical science - the eradication of smallpox from the world over 40 years ago. |
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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One of the world's deadliest diseases, caused by the Ebola virus, may lastly be preventable thanks to US and Canadian researchers, who have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in primates and are now looking to adapt them for human use. |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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Thursday, 27 March 2008 |
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ImmuneRegen® BioSciences, Inc., a wholly owned biotechnology product development and licensing subsidiary of IR BioSciences Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:IRBO), announced it has commenced a collaboration with DelSite Biotechnologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Carrington Laboratories (CARN. |
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Immune System & Vaccines 
