Scientists have shown how a single protein may trigger autistic spectrum disorders by stopping effective communication between brain cells. The team from Duke University in North Carolina created autistic mice by mutating the gene which controls production of the protein, Shank3. The animals exhibited social problems, and repetitive behaviour – both classic signs of autism […]
Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes
By Linda A. Johnson MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) – Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer’s disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler’s diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it. Many could be on the market in five years or less. Contrast that with five years ago, […]
Research ethics require action and vigilance
Allen M. Hornblum is the author of Acres of Skin and Sentenced to Science and is working on a book dealing with institutionalized children as research test subjects. This month in the nation’s capital, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues heard testimony on human-subject protection in the aftermath of recent revelations that […]
AS04-Adjuvanted Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Types 16 and 18 Vaccine (Cervarix®): A Review of its Use in the Prevention of Premalignant Cervical Lesions and Cervical Cancer Causally Related to Certain Oncogenic HPV Types
McKeage K, Romanowski B; Drugs 71 (4), 465-8 (Mar 2011) The AS04-adjuvanted human papillomavirus (HPV) 16/18 vaccine (Cervarix®) is a noninfectious recombinant vaccine produced using purified virus-like particles (VLPs) that induce a strong immunogenic response eliciting high levels of anti-L1 VLP antibodies that persist at levels markedly greater than those observed with natural infection. The […]
A tablet a day keeps the patient at bay: the health hazards of prevention – vaccinations and pharmacoprophylaxis
BSEM conference 11th March 2011 ‘Do no harm! That’, said Dr David Freed, introducing the British Society of Environmental Medicine’s excellent conference which he had also organised, ‘is the charge put upon doctors when they qualify. But do they?’ The assumption is that the more medical care is available, the more good it will do […]
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