The first dengue vaccine candidate (CYD-TDV) to reach phase 3 clinical testing has shown moderate protection (56%) against the disease in Asian children, according to new research published... Read more
Giving children under 5 years old an extra dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) helps to boost their immunity to the poliovirus and should be added to vaccination programmes in polio-ende... Read more
IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea of gene therapy—introducing copies of healthy genes into people who lack them, to tr... Read more
Patients’ own bone-marrow stromal (stem) cells could be used to treat resistant tuberculosis (TB), according to a preliminary study by an international research team. Conventional treatment... Read more
Reported in The Lancet, results on 300 tested revealed strong immune response to the vaccine The results of a phase 1/2 clinical trial in Europe of an investigational Lyme disease vaccine co... Read more
“This is a spectacular leap toward greater function and independence for people who are unable to move their own arms” Reaching out to “high five” someone, grasping and moving objects of dif... Read more
New nanotechnology can be used for Type 1 diabetes, food allergies and asthma New nanoparticle tricks and resets immune system in mice with MS First MS approach that doesn’t suppress i... Read more
A new device that removes clots from the brain could be a game changer in the treatment of strokes, say researchers. In a recent clinical trial, the SOLITAIRE Flow Restoration Device, approv... Read more
Could reduce treatment by more than a year for some patients A novel approach to discover the first new tuberculosis (TB) combination drug regimen cleared a major hurdle when Phase II clinic... Read more
Eliminating malaria might then prove impossible Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the front line treatment for malari... Read more
I believe this could be the biggest revolution in cardiovascular medicine in my lifetime A US study which has treated damage caused by heart attacks using the patient’s own stem... Read more