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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Drug Trials Baxter International Inc. and Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News The study of ancient microbes may not seem consequential, but such pioneering research at the University of Oklahoma has implications for the state of new human health. |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Child Health News When there is a threat of disease during pregnancy, mothers make less aggressive sons with more effective immune systems, researchers at The University of Nottingham have discovered. |
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Medical Research News Commonly used pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines do not appear to be effective for preventing pneumonia, found a study by a team of researchers from Switzerland and the United Kingdom. |
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Once believed to be significant only for bone health, vitamin D is now seen as having a critical function in maintaining the immune system throughout life. |
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Tuesday, 16 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Human and veterinary medicine could receive a big boost through use of larger animals, particularly pigs and dogs, in research, with Europe at the forefront. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News The immune system's battle against invading bacteria reaches its peak activity at night and is lowest during the day. |
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Monday, 15 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News A University of Maryland-led science team has developed a universal influenza vaccine for animals that may help prevent or delay another human flu pandemic. |
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Friday, 12 December 2008 |
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Drug Trials Vical Incorporated has announced that the company's Vaxfectin-formulated H5N1 pandemic influenza DNA vaccines induced T-cell responses against a matching strain of influenza virus and demonstrated cross-clade antibody responses against a different strain in a Phase 1 clinical trial. |
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Friday, 12 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News More than five million people die every year from infectious diseases, in spite of the availability of many antibiotics and vaccines. |
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Thursday, 11 December 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Almost half of the world population is infected with bacteria Helicobacter pylori which colonizes stomach, causing gastritis and ulcers and is recognized by WHO as a type I carcinogen. |
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Tuesday, 09 December 2008 |
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Medical Condition News Scientists have uncovered vital clues about how to treat serious bowel disorders by studying the behaviour of cells in the colon. |
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Monday, 08 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Our immune cells have an amazingly complex recognition system to detect invading pathogens. Often, the intricacies have overwhelmed scientists who desire to know precisely what gives an alarm signal to T cells, a class of white blood cells that recognizes invaders. |
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Thursday, 04 December 2008 |
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Medical Science News Forget what's number one at the box office this week. The most exciting new film features the complex workings of the body, filmed by scientists using ground-breaking technology. |
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 |
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Devices/Technology Sandia National Laboratories is seeking commercial partners to license or contribute to the continued development of a new lab-on-a-chip platform for high-throughput manipulation and interrogation of individual cells, one that enables quantitative study of cellular behaviors with... |
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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
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Medical Research News Invading pathogens provoke a series of molecular heroics that, when successful, muster an army of antibodies to neutralize the threat.Like with any close-quarter combat, on the contrary, an aggressive immune response runs the risk of friendly fire accidents. |
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have synthetically reconstructed the bat variant of the SARS coronavirus (CoV) that caused the SARS epidemic of 2003. |
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Medical Patent News MorphoSys AG and the University of Melbourne announced today that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) has affirmed that it will issue U.S. Patent No. 7,455,836, covering key uses of antibodies against GM-CSF. |
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Tuesday, 25 November 2008 |
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Pharmaceutical News Janssen-Cilag announced today that ustekinumab, the first in a new class of biologics, has received a positive impression for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis from the European Committee for Medical Products for Human Use (CHMP). |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News A recent study on an American-made, Soviet-developed immune formula shows the product has a weighty effect on immune function. |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News The American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) have released a joint statement on the importance of adult vaccination against an increasing number of vaccine-preventable diseases. |
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News A team of scientists have investigated a case of vaccine-associated chronic weakness syndrome (CFS) and macrophagic myofasciitis in an individual demonstrating aluminium overload. |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News In a November 16 advance, online publication of the journal Nature, the researchers say their discovery revamps regular beliefs about how such potentially lethal infections may be ravaging the brain and suggests the possibility of new treatments. |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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Devices/Technology Even seasoned doctors have a hard time diagnosing pneumonia in hospitalized patients breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.That's since a patient's underlying sickness frequently skews laboratory test results and masks pneumonia's symptoms. |
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 |
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Miscellaneous News During the course of the Presidential campaign, Obama signaled his purpose to reverse Bush's controversial limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. |
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News A link between the immune system and the self-cleaning system by which biological cells rid themselves of obsolete or toxic parts may one day yield new weapons in the fight against tuberculosis and other deadly infectious diseases. |
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 |
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Disease/Infection News A protein found in the virulent avian influenza virus strain called H5N1 forms little tubules in which it "hides" the pieces of double-stranded RNA formed during viral infection, which otherwise would prompt an antiviral immune response from infected cells, said Baylor... |
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Wednesday, 05 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Vitamin D is significant to fine health but requires to be activated to function properly in the human body. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
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Medical Condition News The tonsils and lymphoid tissues in the intestinal tract that help defend the body from external pathogens are the home base of a infrequent immune cell newly identified by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. |
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
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Medical Research News Researchers are developing a DNA-based vaccine against the dreaded West Nile virus (WNV), which can be transmitted from animals to humans. The unique feature of this vaccine is that it is also effective after onset of the disease, for it has therapeutic properties. |
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