By Katie Reid ZURICH, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Novartis AG’s (NOVN.VX) vaccine against meningococcal disease, a cause of potentially deadly meningitis, failed to get U.S. backing for use in infants between two months and 12 months of age, the Swiss drugmaker said. The news comes as a setback for Novartis’s meningitis franchise as its Vaccines […]
Research Shows How Bacteria Stay Ahead Of Vaccines And Antibiotics
By Sara New research provides the first detailed genetic picture of an evolutionary war between Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria and the vaccines and antibiotics used against it over recent decades. Large-scale genome sequencing reveals patterns of adaptation and the spread of a drug-resistant lineage of the S. pneumoniae bacteria. The study unmasks the genetic events by […]
Annual report card: cervical cancer screenings drop, some blame HPV vaccine
By Law Offices of Sedaka and Associates HPV vaccine could be to blame for misinformation and failure to get annual pap smears, says report. The National Partnership for Women and Families has released the annual report card that confirms what many have feared when it comes to Women’s Health issues in the United States. Each […]
CDC's stock of smallpox-causing virus source of debate
By Katie Leslie, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Smallpox may be a distant memory, but the virus that causes the debilitating disease, which killed upwards of 300 million people in the last century alone, is alive and well in Atlanta — at least for now. Today, the two known stocks of the variola virus, held at the […]
Pneumonia drugs helped evolve a superbug
By Tina Hesman Saey In a technical tour de force, an international team of researchers deciphered the complete genetic blueprints of 240 samples of a strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae taken from sick people in 22 countries. The samples were isolated between 1984 and 2008, allowing researchers to see how the bacteria changed over time. This […]
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