Plans for large-scale AIDS vaccine trial dropped

July 18, 2008

(AP) -- Plans for a large-scale trial of a potential AIDS vaccine are being dropped in favor of a smaller, more focused study, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday.



Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:


AIDS: Vaccine shows positive results in small trial - researchers

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clinical trial will test new HIV/AIDS vaccine

created Apr 03, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NIAID will not move forward with the PAVE 100 HIV Vaccine Trial

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO to send swine flu vaccine to poor countries

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 7


print this article email this article download pdf blog this article bookmark this article     Stumble it Digg this share on Facebook retweet share on Reddit add to delicious
Rate this story - 3 /5 (1 vote)


July 18, 2008 all stories

Comments: 0

3 /5 (1 vote)
  • Stumble this up

  • Digg this

  • share this

  • hide
  • Related Stories




  • hide
  • Relevant PhysicsForums posts

Other News

Gene for devastating kidney disease discovered

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 42 minutes ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital have identified an important genetic cause of a devastating kidney disease that is the second leading cause of kidney failure in ...


Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Researchers crack part of the neuronal code

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 30 minutes ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Prostheses for paralysed patients, communication with patients who have lost all capacity for normal communication - the hopes for modern brain research are high. However, such brain-machine ...


Air bags not a risk to pregnant women in motor vehicle crashes, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created 19 minutes ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new ground-breaking study from University of Washington researchers has found that air bags do not seem to elevate risk of most potential adverse outcomes during pregnancy.


Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- By implanting an electrode into the brain of a person with locked-in syndrome, scientists have demonstrated how to wirelessly transmit neural signals to a speech synthesizer. The "thought-to-speech" ...


Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry

Genetic study clarifies African and African-American ancestry

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

People who identify as African-American may be as little as 1 percent West African or as much as 99 percent, just one finding of a large-scale, genome-wide study of African and African-American ancestry released ...