Tag: Vaccines

Health
Bacterial construct makes for elegant vaccine

Investigators from Harvard Medical School and London’s Hammersmith Hospital have found a way to use the bacterium Listeria along with Escherichia coli to fight disease instead of causing it. In…

October 25, 2002
Health
AIDS vaccine trials underway

A new AIDS vaccine is being tested in Boston, according to senior investigator Clyde Crumpacker, infectious disease specialist in the Virology Research Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)…

October 16, 2002
Science & Tech
Three in five Americans would get vaccinated for smallpox

Substantial public interest in receiving a smallpox vaccination grows in part from continuing fears about a future bioterrorist attack. Nine months after the September 11th attacks, more than four in…

June 5, 2002
Health
Will vaccine defense help polish off tooth decay?

The key to preventing cavities in teeth lies in controlling an acid-secreting bacterium known as Streptococcus mutans that lives in the mouth. Researchers at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine…

August 10, 2001
Health
Lyme disease vaccine found cost-effective only for those at high risk

Lyme disease, a bacterial infection transmitted through deer tick bites, is rapidly emerging in the U.S. and currently affects about 15,000 people each year. But incidence varies widely according to…

March 9, 2001
Health
T-cell response to HIV proteins may make them vaccine candidates

Development of a vaccine against HIV-1 has long focused on the virus’s structural proteins. These molecules are expressed relatively late in the viral life cycle, after HIV-1 has decreased the…

February 23, 2001
Health
New vaccines could balance global burden of disease

The scientific community believes that diseases that have long plagued the world can be controlled by vaccination. But vaccines won’t work unless they reach the people who need them most…

February 23, 2001
Health
No link between hepatitis B vaccine and risk of multiple sclerosis

The French government in 1998 decided to temporarily suspend hepatitis B vaccine programs in schools after several cases of multiple sclerosis were reported a few weeks after the vaccine had…

January 31, 2001
Health
New cancer vaccine being tested

In studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, tumors were eliminated in 25 percent of patients with widespread kidney and lethal skin cancers who…

November 2, 2000