By Robert Roos, News Editor Mar 21, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – Preliminary studies suggest that this year’s trivalent seasonal flu vaccine used in Europe was less effective against the 2009 H1N1 virus than last year’s monovalent H1N1 vaccine was, possibly because of some degree of mutation in the virus, according to recent reports in Eurosurveillance. […]
Human papillomavirus in head and neck cancers: biology, prognosis, hope of treatment, and vaccines
Psyrri A, Boutati E, Karageorgopoulou S; Anti-Cancer Drugs (Mar 2011) Human papillomaviruses (HPVs), especially type 16, are implicated in the development of a subset of head and neck squamous cell cancers (HNSCCs). This subset of oropharyngeal cancers possesses distinct clinical and laboratory features and outcome, and is particularly common in individuals who lack the traditional […]
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, […]
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 […]
A tablet a day keeps the patient at bay: the health hazards of prevention – vaccinations and pharmacoprophylaxis BSEM conference 11th March 2011
FoodsMatter.com ‘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 but the facts do […]
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