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Aerosol Measles Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 21, 2009
© Dave Haygarth Researchers have developed a new method for the delivery of measles vaccine that allows the patient to inhale a finely-powdered form of the vaccine. Attenuated measles virus was mixed with high-pressure carbon dioxide to produce microscopic bubbles and droplets, which are t...
Seen that? - Gilead wrestles with Roche for Tamiflu rights
in The Biotech Weblog, on October 9, 2009
...opical disease Japanese encephalitis. IC51 will be an addition to Novartis' portfolio of travel vaccines, which include prophylaxis against diseases such as Hepatitis A, cholera and typhoid fever....
Swine flu "could kill millions"
in Sox First, on September 22, 2009
...y answer to the problem is for the rich countries to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for vaccines and antiviral medicines. Bloomberg reports that wealthy nations and development banks ar...
Inhalant Powder Measles Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 17, 2009
...ctricity for refrigeration, clean water and sterile needles needed to administer traditional liquid vaccines.
To create an inhalable vaccine, Sievers and his team of students and researchers develope...
Autumn Babies at Higher Risk for Childhood Asthma
in Allergies, on August 8, 2009
... an infant from contracting respiratory illness during the winter flu season. Researchers say that vaccines for this age group may need to be developed, particularly for those that have high risk of d...
Swine Flu Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 19, 2009
...a vaccine against swine flu. Researchers at the University of Antwerp will be testing 4 potential vaccines for H1N1v in a trial involving 300 to 400 volunteers and expects that a Mexican flu vaccine...
Vaccine for Ear Infections
in The Parenting Weblog, on July 11, 2009
...ible for ear infections, from the nose and ears.
If this works in humans, isn't it grand that vaccines can be delivered this way? Simple, effective, and no jabs! Wish all vaccines can be delivere...
Novel Delivery of Vaccine Against Otitis Media
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 4, 2009
...is vaccination strategy offers a simple, effective, inexpensive and pain-free method of delivering vaccines.
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Drug pushing Eli Lilly
in Sox First, on June 13, 2009
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With drug companies around the world set to make millions selling vaccines to stop swine flu, it's worth looking at how they are pushing drugs. Bloomberg reports that drug giant Eli Lilly p...
Health supply chains in Africa to be discussed in CSCMP 2009 conference
in Supplychainer, on June 9, 2009
...ain insights in this area. At the center of the international issue of improving delivery of drugs, vaccines, and other remedies to needy populations is the role of the supply chain. The session, enti...
Swine Flu
in The Parenting Weblog, on May 1, 2009
... a few years ago. This time, the flu virus is a mongrel with genes from North American swine and avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, according ...
MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 5, 2009
...g:
Naseem Amin, M.D. PhD; SVP, Business Development, Biogen Idec
Andrin Oswald, M.D.; CEO, Novartis Vaccines
Panels will include:
Entrepreneurship: Making Your Company a Success
Lesa Mitchell (Kauff...
Genetic Sequencing of Cold Virus
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 19, 2009
... the different strains can be used in epidemiologic studies and in the development of antivirals or vaccines against human rhinoviruses.
This study has been published in the Feb 13, 2009 issue of Sc...
Woman In China Dies Of Bird Flu
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 18, 2009
...d now a 2 year old girl from nearby Shanxi Province has been diagnosed with the same H5N1 strain of avian influenza
A 19 year old woman died of bird flu in Beijing on January 5 but there haven't ...
Distribution of Contraceptives, Approved at Gloucester
in Next Nine Months, on October 9, 2008
...be guided and educated well in terms of pregnancy, sex and even cervical cancer and cervical cancer vaccines. The education of course starts at home. And I agree with the distribution of contraceptive...
Vaccine Allergies
in Allergies, on September 11, 2008
...ll, so am I!
With my first-born, it never even occurred to me to worry about allergic reactions to vaccines. Allergies was something that happened to other people, not us. Well, nothing untoward happ...
2008-2009 Flu Vaccines, Approved By The FDA
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 10, 2008
...rtesy of iStockphoto, shannon drawe
Earlier this week, the FDA has announced its approved flu vaccines for the 2008-2009 flu season in the United States.
Six vaccines approved and their manufa...
Phase 1 Trials Shows Plant-Produced Cancer Vaccine as Safe
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 28, 2008
...for patients. If further trials demonstrate its efficacy, this presents a novel method of producing vaccines quickly and cheaply.
The researchers chose tobacco plants that were genetically modified ...
Genetically Modified Salmonella Delivers Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 17, 2008
...otein from the S. pneumoniae bacterium, which then triggers a strong antibody response. Unlike most vaccines that are entirely manufactured by a vaccine company, the attenuated recombinant salmonella ...
Celebrity Green Team
in The Celebrities Weblog, on June 12, 2008
...rally attended by Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy and other celebrities aimed at eliminating toxins in vaccines.
Source:www.people.com
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Using Chicken Antibodies for Detecting HER2 Breast Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 27, 2008
...2 quantum dot-based quantitative bioimaging system stems from the broad genetic differences between avian and human species. The chicken IgY antibody to HER2 reacts strongly with the target protein wh...
Pandemic preparedness
in Sox First, on January 11, 2008
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The threat of bird flu has dropped off the radar - thus far, avian influenza has killed just over 200 people worldwide with about half occurring in Indonesia - but that doesn't mean the pandemi...
Hib Vaccine Recalled
in The Parenting Weblog, on December 13, 2007
...are no longer "special" when it comes to product recalls . Now, even children's vaccines are being recalled.
More than a million vaccines of Hib and combination vaccines Hib and H...
Beware of Poory Refrigerated Vaccines
in The Parenting Weblog, on December 5, 2007
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Watch out for poorly refrigerated vaccines, parents! After comforting you child after his or her vaccine ordeal, it is possible that that vaccine is a dud. The Center for Disease Control a...
Enhanced HIV Vaccine, Helped Monkeys Kick AIDS-like Symptoms
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 28, 2007
...boratory Medicine at Penn.:
"DNA vaccine technology has great promise for the development of vaccines and immune therapeutics for a variety of infectious diseases and cancers.
While previous s...
Merck's HPV Vaccine May Expand to Women Up to 45 Years Old
in Well Woman Blog, on November 9, 2007
...ned it to me. Unfortunately, it's a disease very few women know about and should. At first, the vaccines for HPV was for young girls and women aged 9 to 26. Now, it looks like the vaccines can hel...
ISU Sensor Can Detect Single Molecule of HPV
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 31, 2007
... picked up known amounts of the virus.
The said sensor - which may be used in other viruses (HIV, avian flu) as well - is going to be developed for laboratory use as soon as agreements with interest...
Pregnant Women Should Eat More Fish?
in Well Woman Blog, on October 4, 2007
...e from people exposed in chemical spills. No major studies have shown evidence mercury from food or vaccines has caused brain damage to mothers or children.
Michael Bender, director of The Mercury Po...
Lab-on-a-Chip Device for Detecting Avian Flu
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 25, 2007
...Researchers have developed a miniaturized device which can detect the highly pathogenic avian flu (H5N1) virus in throat swab samples, with results released within half an hour.
The device compris...
Nasal Influenza Vaccine Flumist®, Now FDA-Approved for Children Ages 2-5
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 20, 2007
...ed in the nose.
Find more details from the FDA News .
Flumist® is a product of MedImmune Vaccines, Inc. .
[Photo Credit: Nature ]...
BIO Investor Forum 2007
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 7, 2007
...d Inflammatory Diseases - Clinical Perspective on New Treatment Paradigms and Targets
From Cancer Vaccines to Adjuvants - Insights into the Future of Immunotherapy and Cancer
Se the BIO Invest...
Summer Time, Pollen Allergy Time
in Allergies, on August 13, 2007
...lly matter. When this season is over, consult your allergist and find out if immunotherapy (allergy vaccines) is something you could try in preparation for next year's allergy season. It does take...
E. coli Linked to Crohn's Disease
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 8, 2007
...ovel group of E. coli bacteria - containing genes similar to those described in uropathogenic and avian pathogenic E. coli and enteropathogenic bacteria such as salmonella, cholera, bubonic plag...
Teahouse Birds
in Hidden Travel Gems, on July 23, 2007
...ring that the close contact between humans and birds might cause a mutation in the deadly avian flu, several songbird cafes and shops have been closed down. To the best of my knowledge, the Vie...
Transgenic Mushrooms as Drug Biofactories
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 25, 2007
...nsgenic mushrooms can then be used as factories for the production of therapeutic proteins, such as vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and hormones like insulin, or commercial enzymes, such as cellulase...
MBAs to the rescue
in Sox First, on April 28, 2007
..., and for as little as 1 month. MBAs Without Borders will pay for accommodation, transport, laptop, vaccines, health & travel insurance and visas. It also provides a $US1000 per month stipend, ret...
Vaccine for Breast Cancer
in Well Woman Blog, on April 23, 2007
...e topic:
A vaccine is a very common way of building up the immune system to fight infection. Using vaccines to fight breast cancer is relatively new, however, and still considered experimental. A vac...
FDA Licenses Sanofi-Aventis' Avian Flu Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 19, 2007
...A has licensed Sanofi-Aventis' H5N1 vaccine (pdf file of the press release here ), the first Avian influenza vaccine for humans in the U.S.
The licensure of this vaccine was based on a cl...
Merck Licenses Coley Pharma's VaxImmune for $4 Million
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 13, 2007
...ler T-cell immune response when used in combination with prophylactic (preventative) or therapeutic vaccines.
VaxImmune is currently under clinical trials for various cancer, infectious disease ...
Roche Licences Transgene's HPV Vaccines
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 12, 2007
Roche and Transgene will collaborate to develop and market products from Transgene's vaccine program against HPV-mediated diseases, including Transgene's main vaccine candidate TG 4001 , currently in development to treat high grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia , a pre-cancerou...
On Ear Infections in Children and Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV7)
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 12, 2007
...terrible and so most children would just stay away from them like they're lepers or something.
Vaccines, in those days here in my home country, were really scarce - probably the reason why ear in...
Rabies-based Vaccine May Defeat HIV
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 11, 2007
...tors are based on a type of rabies vaccine strain that has been used for more than 20 years in oral vaccines against rabies in wildlife in Europe.
The study was aimed at studying the safety and effec...
Most Physicians Favor HPV Vaccination
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 29, 2007
...he HPV vaccine should not be mandated
more than two-thirds of physicians surveyed said only "vaccines for diseases that pose a significant risk of death and contagion" should be mandated a...
Fruit Fly Offers Clues in Development of New Human Vaccines
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 13, 2007
...ns can now learn from flies, for this new finding has implications for new ways of developing human vaccines against AIDS and diseases that attack the immune system and also against bioterrorism ...
Novel Pulsed Microjet System for Needle-Free Delivery of Protein Drugs
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 12, 2007
...ters and less liquid per pulsation, was shown to be more effective."
Needle-free delivery of vaccines has been identified as one of the significant emerging challenges in global health as there...
Cell Phones to Improve Third World Healthcare
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 4, 2007
...sease outbreaks in the Amazon Basin , Voxiva's system is also being used in Indonesia for avian flu reporting and in India to test a new drug for leishmaniasis, a disease spread by sand flie...
Flo Shots and Pregnancy
in Well Woman Blog, on February 14, 2007
...because it can protect both her and her baby, a new study released in San Francisco says.
Current vaccines are not licensed for babies under 6 months. But, the study says it appears that an expectan...
War is Much More Harmful Than You Thought
in Latina Viva, on February 5, 2007
..., respiratory infections and diarrhea, could be saved, since these illnesses can be prevented by $2 vaccines, $1 worth of antibiotics, or a 10-cent dose of oral rehydration salts as well as the main b...
Less Allergies in 2007!
in Allergies, on January 4, 2007
...search and development, so they'd come up with more effective and safer allergy medications and vaccines. I wish more people would be more aware and understand the dangers of allergies. I wish 200...
Modified Akt1 Enzyme Boost Efficacy of Tumor Vaccines
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 5, 2006
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Scientists have come up with an altered enzyme Akt1 which can boost the effect of tumor vaccines by extending the lives of dendritic cells , the immune-system master switches that promote the r...
Breast Cancer Vaccine Targeting HER-2/neu Over-expression
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 13, 2006
...y of disease, recurrence and overall survival. Reasearchers are now using these findings to develop vaccines targeting these genetic markers.
In a study presented during the recently held meeting of ...
The Netherlands Invested Euro 18.4 Million to Make Better Vaccines to Fight Raging TB Pandemic
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 7, 2006
...g stand by providing funding and scientific expertise for the development of new, more effective TB vaccines.
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) has invested Euro 18.4 million in Aeras G...
Hong Kong testing anti-bacterial nano-coating in subways
in Nanotechbuzz, on November 5, 2006
...o see the same in London's tube in the near future.
With news of powerful flu strains like the avian flu and hand-transmissible diseases such as colds, public transportation operators in A...
More than 400 Biotechnology Drugs and Vaccines Under Trials
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 16, 2006
... ) from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA) found 418 medicines and vaccines developed through biotechnology in various stages of development to treat more than 100 dis...
$30 million to University of Michigan startup blurs corporate-academic borders
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 8, 2006
...gic Nanotechnology at the University of Michigan (U-M).
NanoBio Corporation develops therapies and vaccines against infections ranging from cold sores to nail fungus and influenza using a nove...
Chitosan As Component In Nanoscale Detectors
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 2, 2006
...l to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a sensor system to detect the presence of avian flu.
See the University of Maryland Newsdesk for the feature story.
[Photo: JaxShells.org ...
Stronger Avian Flu Vaccine From GlaxoSmithKline
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 27, 2006
..., GlaxoSmithKline will seek regulatory approval from the FDA this year, and if approved, the avian flu vaccine will sell for the same price as a standard flu shot, i.e., $8 to $12 a shot.
Read...
Novartis To Build Cell-Culture Based Flu Vaccines Plant in US
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 19, 2006
... Novartis will build a $600 million plant in the United States to develop flu vaccines using advanced, cell-culture techniques . The facility would be based in holly Springs, North Carolin...
Czech Republic Invites Biotech Firms to Brno Medipark
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 14, 2006
..., who see it as a cheap, efficient place to do clinical trials and to manufacture biotech drugs and vaccines. In March this year, the renowned U.S. Mayo Clinic also selected Brno's International ...
Book Tip: The Allergy and Asthma Solution
in Allergies, on July 11, 2006
...ing:
IgE blood tests as alternative to skin tests to identify allergies,
and allergy drops and vaccines
"I hope my book educates physicians and patients about the important advances bei...
Business and bird flu
in Sox First, on July 11, 2006
With reports of bird flu now confirmed in Spain , the questions about how companies are preparing for a possible pandemic are getting louder. And a new study has raised serious questions about business is ready if the unthinkable happens. On the plus side, nearly 75 per cent of global ...
WHO Confirms First Case of Human-to-Human Transmission of Avian Flu
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 23, 2006
... cause more severe symptoms. Nevertheless, this news will further fuel fears of the emergence of an avian flu epidemic.
Read the full story from Forbes .
[Photo: AP Photo]...
Rapid Test for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or "Mad Cow" Disease)
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 23, 2006
...fare well in the Asian market, considering that consumers are scared off poultry in the face of the Avian flu situation. Early diagnostic kits may help boost the cattle industry.
Read more details of...
US Government To Purchase $165 Million Worth of Anthrax Drugs
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 23, 2006
...anthrax's potential use as a bioweapon, various efforts are also underway to develop anthrax vaccines through molecular farming , as well as anthrax antibiotics . In contrast to vaccines and ant...
Novartis Buys Rights to Intecell's Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine Candidate
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 14, 2006
...ical disease Japanese encephalitis . IC51 will be an addition to Novartis' portfolio of travel vaccines, which include prophylaxis against diseases such as Hepatitis A, cholera and typhoid feve...
Novartis Bids for NeuTec, Expands Into Hospital Anti-Infectives
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 8, 2006
...d be just the latest of the many acquisitions Novartis made in the last year, starting with Chiron Vaccines in November last year, and the most recent of which is this week's aquisition of excl...
Vaccine Against Dental Cavities
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 29, 2006
...at the vaccine works in animal trials.
The Forsyth researchers are focusing on "mucosal" vaccines that can be sprayed into the nose for several reasons. Primarily these vaccines are better-...
FDA Advisory Panel Approves Gardasil Vaccine Against Cervical Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 20, 2006
... The US FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee unanimously approved Gardasil® , Merck 's recombinant vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV) , a sexually-tran...
Blood Test To Determine Nicotine Patch Success
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 20, 2006
...e tool developed for those who wish to quit smoking. As opposed to anti-smoking drugs or smoking vaccines , nicotine patches, nasal sprays and gums are nicotine-replacement therapies , designed to...
Lactoferrin And Lysozymes Production From Rice
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 15, 2006
...cular farming, is a novel technology, and other companies have already been successful in producing vaccines and other pharmaceuticals in plants (see previous entries on plague , anthrax and equin...
