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Salon.com June 9, 2000 Arthur Allen |
Heart of darkness A team of Los Alamos researchers traces AIDS back to the 1930s, blowing a hole in the most recent theory about its origin. |
Wired January 2003 Richard Martin |
Testing the First AIDS Vaccine Medical establishment, government, and Genentech be damned -- Don Francis has never stopped believing. Now he's about to finish testing the first human AIDS vaccine. |
American Family Physician July 15, 2003 Sur et al. |
Vaccinations in Pregnancy Routine vaccines that generally are safe to administer during pregnancy include diphtheria, tetanus, influenza, and hepatitis B. Other vaccines, such as meningococcal and rabies, may be considered. |
American Family Physician September 1, 2003 Maurer et al. |
Smallpox Vaccine: Contraindications, Administration, and Adverse Reactions Public health departments and the U.S. military have begun the process of vaccinating soldiers and civilian first-responders. Smallpox vaccination carries some serious risks. |
American Family Physician December 1, 2002 Sanford R. Kimmel |
Vaccine Adverse Events: Separating Myth from Reality Vaccines have turned many childhood diseases into distant memories in industrialized countries. However, questions have been raised about the safety of some vaccines because of rare but serious adverse effects that have been attributed to them. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2009 Joanna Breitstein |
Vaccines for All The world is suffering. But just over the horizon is a new access equation that could speed innovative vaccines to where they're needed most. |
Popular Mechanics December 1, 2006 Ben Harder |
Fighting HIV by Building a New Killer In the fight to find a cure for AIDS, researchers have invented a viral double agent on a mission to seek out where HIV hides. |
Wired September 2002 Amanda Griscom |
Take These Genes and Call Me in the Morning Gene vaccines may be relatively new, but they're the logical outgrowth of two familiar strands of medical science. |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
A Most Victorious Vaccine A review of Jeffrey Kluger's book Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, which chronicles polio epidemics in the first half of the 20th century, and scientific efforts by Salk and his colleagues to create a vaccine quickly. |
American Family Physician July 1, 2004 Lo Re & Gluckman |
Travel Immunizations The approach to vaccine recommendations should be based on a thorough assessment of the risks for travel-related diseases, the time available before trip departure, and current knowledge of the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases. |
Salon.com July 28, 2000 Kate Scanell |
Contributing to genocide By giving HIV deniers a global platform, South African President Mbeki has put countless lives at risk. |
Salon.com August 22, 2001 Michael McColly |
Whisper of death Poverty, a rigid class system and conservative Hindu values are quickly turning India into the next South Africa in the global AIDS pandemic... |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
Health May 2008 Jessica Snyder Sachs |
Seven Vaccines You Need Right Now Why those childhood shots (whooping cough, mumps, and more) may have worn off - and what to do. |
Salon.com December 1, 2000 Fiona Morgan |
It's World AIDS Day ... again Americans with insurance now improve with new drugs, but the disease is on a rampage across the rest of the world... |
Popular Mechanics January 8, 2010 Erin McCarthy |
How to Stop a Daybreakers-Style Vampire Epidemic As far-fetched as the "disease" may be, there are certain steps doctors, scientists and officials always take when analyzing an outbreak. |
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery? |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
Roll Up Your Sleeve, Gramps A graying population may create a huge market for vaccines that buttress aging immune systems. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Anthony Tao |
The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late? |
Managed Care October 2000 Kevin A. Wilson |
Public Policy Largely Ignores Adult Immunization Needs Although four fifths of the nation's children are fully immunized, tens of thousands of adults die each year from diseases preventable by vaccination... |
AskMen.com |
Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2014 Maria Burke |
Ebola vaccine passes first safety hurdle The vaccine was developed collaboratively by scientists at the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and at Okairos, a biotechnology company acquired by GlaxoSmithKline. |
American Family Physician May 15, 2002 Alex H. Krist & Amy Crawford-Faucher |
Management of Newborns Exposed to Maternal HIV Infection The management of infants whose mothers are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus involves minimizing the risk of vertical transmission of HIV, recognizing neonatal HIV infection early, preventing opportunistic infections, and addressing psychosocial issues... |
Salon.com August 21, 2001 David Horowitz |
The AIDS obstructionists As the AIDS epidemic spins out of control, special interest groups are preventing one of the only things that can work -- mandatory testing... |
BusinessWeek June 28, 2004 Amy Barrett |
Jonas Salk: He Put An End To Polio In the '50s, Dr. Jonas Salk moved with lightning speed to develop and test a vaccine for polio. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 28, 2005 Cynthia Churchwell |
Funding R&D for Neglected Diseases Research on vaccines for diseases that primarily affect low-income countries remains minimal---the risks are too high for developers. The book Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases suggests a solution. |
Chemistry World July 29, 2015 Maria Burke |
Malaria vaccine approval first marred by efficacy question mark After decades of research, a malaria vaccine has finally been given the green light by a regulatory agency. But with limited efficacy and questions over the vaccine's cost, its future remains unclear. |
Salon.com May 18, 2000 Sabin Russell |
The dream and the coming disaster AIDS threatens to ravage the hopes of South Africa's young democracy. Don't expect leaders to get excited because a few companies cut the cost of HIV drugs. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2007 Victoria Gill |
HIV Vaccines 'Will Not Work' Just days after US drug firm Merck revealed its leading HIV vaccine candidate had flopped in clinical trials, a leading immunologist has predicted that many other vaccines in the pipeline will also fail because their design is similarly flawed. |
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Sarah Houlton |
Antibodies spark HIV vaccine hopes These cross-reactive broadly neutralising antibodies bound to and neutralised more than 90 per cent of the HIV strains they were tested against. |
Health October 2007 Sarah Clachar |
Read this BEFORE you get a flu shot The flu vaccine may not be as good -- or as safe -- as you think. |
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 Weintraub et al. |
Swine Flu: The Pandemic That Wasn't Swine flu is waning, but the lessons of H1N1 could come in handy during a more serious epidemic. |
Salon.com February 4, 2000 Emily Bass |
A new urgency With his country at the epicenter of an AIDS epidemic, the special advisor to South Africa's health minister quietly makes his first trip to an important research conference. |
BusinessWeek April 30, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
Teaching The Body To Fix Itself Cancer vaccines still in trial stages may be able to prolong life with few side effects, but the FDA has yet to be convinced. |
Chemistry World February 9, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Africa's First Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial The first large-scale clinical trial of an HIV vaccine will involve around 3000 participants in five selected sites in South Africa. It will compare the effectiveness of the vaccine at reducing HIV infection compared to a placebo. |
Scientific American April 10, 2006 Christine Soares |
Turning Yellow Yellow fever shot confers long-lasting immunity, a trait that medical researchers hope to transfer to other kinds of vaccines. |
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 John Carey |
A Booster Shot For Vaccines New technology could speed the development of vaccines and keep the medicine chest stocked. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong |
Vaccines: Progress in Preventing Bad Bugs Long on the sidelines of pharma R&D, vaccine development is moving to center stage as most of the big pharmas diversify, spreading their risk among the full gamut of revenue sources. |