Tolerance to Peanuts Achieved With Oral Immunotherapy
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March 18, 2009
Children with severe peanut allergies were able to eat peanuts after undergoing oral immunotherapy, researchers announced here this weekend at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology..[read article]
Attenuated Tissue-Cultured Smallpox Vaccine May Be Safe, Effective
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March 11, 2009
Attenuated tissue-cultured smallpox vaccine (LC16m8) may be safe and effective in producing seroconversion in vaccinia-naive individuals and a booster response in some previously vaccinated individuals, according to the results of a study reported in the March 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association..[read article]
High Flu Vaccine Dose Boosts Immune Response In Elderly
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FEB 25, 2009
Giving people age 65 and older a dose four times larger than the standard flu vaccine boosts the amount of antibodies in their blood to levels considered protective against the flu, more so than the standard flu vaccine does. The findings from a study of nearly..[read article]
FDA Has Accepted For Filing The First Potential Once-a-Day Nasal Antihistamine
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FEB 23, 2009
The New Drug Application (NDA) for a newly formulated higher strength azelastine nasal spray has now been accepted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as complete for substantive review after initial evaluation ...[read article]
New Treatment Targets Result From First Comprehensive Genomic Study Of The Common Cold
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FEB 22, 2009
Scientists from Procter & Gamble (P&G), the University of Calgary and the University of Virginia have announced results from the first study to examine the entire human genome's response to the most common cold virus...[read article]
Immune Response Boosted In Elderly By High Dose Of Flu Vaccine
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FEB 20, 2009
Giving people age 65 and older a dose four times larger than the standard flu vaccine boosts the amount of antibodies in their blood to levels considered protective against the flu, more so than the standard flu vaccine does. The findings from a study of nearly 4,000 ..[read article]
Stress May Make You Itch
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FEB 19, 2009
Current research suggests that stress may activate immune cells in your skin, resulting in inflammatory skin disease. The related report by Joachim et al., "Stress-induced Neurogenic Inflammation in Murine Skin Skews Dendritic Cells towards Maturation and...[read article]
How Women With Lupus Can Increase Chance For Healthy Pregnancies
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Janu 17, 2009
In the not so distant past, women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease, were advised not to have children, and if they became pregnant, to have therapeutic abortions to prevent severe flares of their lupus. Research by ...[read article]
New Role For Growth Factors In Immunity Discovered By Making Flies Sick
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Janu 15, 2009
A Salmonella infection is not a positive experience. However, by infecting the common laboratory fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster with a Salmonella strain known for causing humans intestinal ...[read article]
Smokers Should Be Vaccinated For Pneumonia, Panel Advises
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Janu 12, 2009
An expert panel is advising the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to add adult smokers to the list of people that should be vaccinated against bacteria that cause pneumonia, meningitis and other diseases...[read article]
Safer, More Effective TB Vaccine For HIV-Positive People
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JANU 10, 2009
UCLA scientists engineered a new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine specifically designed for HIV-positive people that was shown to be safer and more potent than the current TB vaccine in preclinical trials. ...[read article]
