20. November 2009 23:47
A special edition of UNICEF's annual State of the World's Children report, released 20 years after the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, shows that "fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school - but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development," the Associated Press reports.
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19. November 2009 00:35
The WHO on Tuesday announced it would lead a week-long, multi-country vaccination campaign in Africa next week to protect those "deemed at highest risk from yellow fever," Reuters reports.
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6. November 2009 00:13
The Wall Street Journal examines "big pharma's growing interest in a corner of healthcare - emerging-market inoculations," in light of a recent move by Novartis to purchase an 85 percent stake in the Chinese vaccine maker Zhejiang Tianyuan Bio-Pharmaceutical Co. In the summer, drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA made a similar move to acquire a majority stake in India's Shantha Biotechnics, the newspaper notes.
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5. November 2009 00:44
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent Number 7,611,704, which includes broad claims covering anti-viral uses of phosphatidylserine (PS)-targeting antibodies including Peregrine's lead clinical compound, bavituximab. PS is a unique marker exposed on the surface of virally infected cells that can be targeted to treat a broad spectrum of virus infections.
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Tags: Antibody, Cancer, Cell, Cytomegalovirus, Hemorrhagic Fever, Hepatitis C, Herpes, Herpes Simplex, Influenza, Measles, Smallpox, Virus
4. November 2009 23:36
As a follow-up to the release of the State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization by the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank last month, The International examines the findings that "despite child vaccinations hitting a record-high with about 106 million infants being immunised this year, life-saving vaccines fail to reach some 24 million children in 72 of the world's poorest countries," many of whom, "are estimated to be most at risk from vaccine-preventable diseases," the publication writes.
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4. November 2009 00:05
To mark the first World Pneumonia Day, Inter Press Service examines how vaccines and other strategies can be used to combat the disease, which kills more children under age 5 each year "than measles, malaria, and AIDS combined, according to the Global Coalition against Child Pneumonia."
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3. November 2009 23:35
Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AEMD) announced today that it has initiated a collaborative biomarker discovery program with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine and the Sports Legacy Institute (SLI).
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Tags: Biomarker, Brain, Cancer, Dementia, Depression, Education, Genetics, Measles, Neurodegeneration, Pandemic, Paranoia, Tau Protein, Trauma, Virus
2. November 2009 23:43
As part of its ongoing "Federal Player of the Week" series with the Partnership for Public Service, the Washington Post examines the role of Richard Greene, the head of USAID's Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition in the Bureau of Global Health.
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2. November 2009 10:44
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, presented Safety of a Quadrivalent (A,C,Y,W-135) Meningococcal Vaccine When Given to Infants with Other Pediatric Vaccines at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) this past weekend.
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2. November 2009 02:26
Nearly 100 leading global health organizations from around the world joined forces to recognize the first-annual World Pneumonia Day on November 2 and urge governments to take steps to fight pneumonia, the world’s leading killer of young children.
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Tags: Breastfeeding, DNA, Hygiene, Immunization, Investment, Malaria, Measles, Nutrition, Pneumococcal Disease, Pneumonia, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Vaccine
31. October 2009 00:55
THE emergence of the H1N1 swine flu has added urgency to what has become an annual ritual for millions of Americans: getting a flu shot. The good news is that scientists have developed a vaccine against the H1N1 virus. But it is taking much longer than expected to produce the hundreds of millions of doses the government had planned to distribute. And it is still too soon to know how effective the vaccine will be in preventing swine flu.
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Tags: Antibody, H1N1, Herpes, Herpes Simplex, Immunology, Influenza, Measles, Mumps, Swine Flu, Vaccine, Virus, Yellow Fever
30. October 2009 12:43
The New York Times examines the "debate over whether the United States and other rich nations spend too much on AIDS, which requires lifelong medications, compared with diarrhea and the other leading killer of children, pneumonia, both of which can be treated inexpensively."
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30. October 2009 12:11
Marking the first international World Pneumonia Day on 2 November, the GAVI Alliance plans to immunise 130 million children in poor countries against pneumonia, the world's leading child killer.
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27. October 2009 06:22
More teenagers are being vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), meningococcal meningitis and pertussis (whooping cough), though the rates are still too low, according to recently released government data and a panel of experts convened by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID).
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Tags: Brain, Cancer, CDC, Cervical Cancer, Cough, Diphtheria, Hearing Loss, Hepatitis B, Hospital, Immunization, Influenza, Measles, Meningitis, Mumps, Poverty, Tetanus, Vaccine, Whooping Cough
24. October 2009 02:01
"The spread of dengue virus throughout the tropics represents a major, rapidly growing public health problem with an estimated 2.5 billion people at risk of dengue fever and the life-threatening disease, severe dengue," write the authors of a Lancet Infectious Diseases review that examines what is known about the virus and progress in the development of a dengue vaccine (Webster et. al, 11/09).
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Tags: Antiretroviral, CDC, Circumcision, Dengue Fever, HIV/AIDS, Immunization, Malaria, Measles, Obesity, Pandemic, PEPFAR, Polio, Tuberculosis, Vaccine, Virus
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