Truthdig (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new vaccine trial is underway in Africa in an attempt to battle Malaria, a disease that not only kills one million people every year, but also makes 300 million seriously sick. If trial results come back positive, a worldwide vaccine could be available as soon as 2012. The LA Times: Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people—90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger...
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The makers of Mosquirix announce a trial involving thousands of children in Africa. They aim to seek marketing approval as soon as 2012 and have a vaccine that reduces infections by 80% by 2025. Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people -- 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger than 5 -- and makes 300 million people seriously ill. Major progress in controlling the disease...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
• News: Cannabis use among teenagers continues to fall • Gallery: Wunderbar project sees primary school children offering free haircuts • Video: Guide to osteoarthritis of the knee Welcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk **************** Today's top story - Domestic use of foetal heart monitors putting babies at risk Using device at home to listen to unborn child's...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Antigenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN) today indicated that GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) Phase III malaria vaccine clinical trial, containing Antigenics' QS-21 Stimulon® adjuvant, has enrolled more than 5,000 children to date and is expected to involve up to 16,000 children. The pivotal efficacy study of RTS,S, the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine, is ongoing in seven African countries.
EarthWire Africa RSS News Feed (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative has outlined its ambitions for the next generation of vaccines.
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Abigail Lucas 11/5/09 10:30 African health workers are now in fear that the days when the AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa. There is also fear that a major global distributer of AIDS money was considering cutting back worldwide. At the news conference in South Africa it was said that clinics that are funded by international doctors in Uganda are being told not to take on new patients. According...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
HyderabadClinical trials of malaria vaccine soon Biotech industry achieves 18-20 per cent growth last year, despite slowdown‘Biotech Regulatory Authority’ may get Cabinet approval soonHYDERABAD: A vaccine to prevent malaria and developed by scientists of the New Delhi-based International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology will undergo the first phase of clinical trials in...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A new form of the malaria vaccine may save hundreds of thousands of lives.
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Among challenges ahead- administering the vaccine in Africa's most remote areas.
Global Warming (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This is promising. Anything that could wrestle this disease out of the way would be revolutionary. We are all spoiled in the developed world where we mostly live lifetimes without ever been touched by a significant disease vector. When we do get into trouble, the medical industry usually is able to solve the problem before it becomes dangerous. Less than a century ago, our grandparents lived with the...
PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Immunization with irradiated Plasmodium sporozoites induces sterile immunity in rodents, monkeys and humans. The major surface component of the sporozoite the circumsporozoite protein (CS) long considered as the antigen predominantly responsible for this immunity, thus remains the leading candidate antigen for vaccines targeting the parasite's pre-erythrocytic (PE) stages. However, this role for CS...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The disease, for which no effective treatment was ever developed, killed as many as 30% of those infected. Between 65-80% of survivors were marked with deep pitted scars (pockmarks), most prominent on the face. In some ancient cultures, smallpox was such a major killer of infants that custom forbade the naming of a newborn until the infant had caught the disease and proved it would survive. WHO fact...
Booster Shots (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A massive Phase 3 trial of a malaria vaccine is now underway in Africa, with 5,000 children enrolled already out of a target population of 16,000. If results are favorable, marketing approval could be sought as early as 2012, making...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antigenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN) today indicated that GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Phase III malaria vaccine clinical trial, containing Antigenics’ QS-21 Stimulon® adjuvant, has enrolled more than 5,000 children to date and is expected to involve up to 16,000 children. The pivotal efficacy study of RTS,S, the world’s most clinically advanced malaria...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
On Tuesday at the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) Pan-African Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, scientists and global health experts focused on malaria eradication, Agence France-Presse reports. "Key among the strategies ... is the development of an effective anti-malaria vaccine, a project scientists have been researching since the late 80s. ...
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