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TB vaccine gets its groove back

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has cracked one of clinical medicine's enduring mysteries - what happened to the tuberculosis vaccine. The once-effective vaccine no longer prevents the bacterial ...


TB vaccine enters new clinical trials

TB vaccine enters new clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, is to enter Phase IIb proof-of-concept clinical trials, making it the first TB candidate vaccine ...





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Research identifies type of vaccine that holds promise in protecting against TB

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers are one step closer to finding a vaccine that better protects against tuberculosis. An investigational vaccine for TB tested at Saint Louis University appears likely to offer significantly better protection against ...


Groundbreaking, lifesaving TB vaccine a step closer

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created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at Aberystwyth University, following a number of years of investment by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), have licensed ground-breaking research to a non-profit product development ...


WHO paper: TB vaccine could kill babies with HIV

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization says a study has shown that babies with HIV could die if given a standard tuberculosis vaccine.


New tuberculosis vaccine is developed

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created Jun 06, 2007 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

U.S. scientists have announced development of a vaccine to prevent tuberculosis, one of the world's most deadly diseases.


Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine more effective than traditional shot

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created Mar 12, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A novel aerosol version of the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, administered directly to the lungs as an oral mist, offers significantly better protection against the disease in experimental animals than a comparable ...


Hopkins-designed animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies

Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies

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created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...


Trials begin for 'essential' new TB vaccine

Trials begin for 'essential' new TB vaccine

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created Jul 30, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Clinical trials are underway with the first new vaccine against TB in over 80 years. If successful, the tests will have major implications for TB control and could lead to the development of a new vaccine ...


Tijuana injection drug users on collision course for HIV and TB

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created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mexican researchers and health officials, shows that as many as 67 percent of injection drug users in Tijuana test ...


ID, HIV experts urge more resources for TB

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created Mar 20, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

In honor of World TB Day 2008 (March 24), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the HIVMA Medicine Association (HIVMA) are urging U.S. policymakers to step up the fight against tuberculosis by committing substantial ...


Gates Foundation goes after TB

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created Sep 20, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, based in Seattle, has announced $280 million in grants to fight a growing tuberculosis problem.



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