The Federation of Medical Women of Canada commends the federal government for making $300 million over the next three years available to the provinces and territories to support the launch of a national program for GARDASIL(TM), the approved vaccine for HPV-related diseases such as cervical cancer and genital warts.
Suspicion and mistrust of Western medicine led Muslim religious leaders in three northern states of Nigeria to call for the 2003 boycott of the national polio vaccine campaign, according to a historical analysis in PLoS Medicine. The boycott led to fresh outbreaks of polio in Nigeria.
The three most common forms of acute viral hepatitis in the United States ? hepatitis A, B and C ? declined dramatically between 1995 and 2005, with hepatitis A and B at the lowest levels ever recorded since the government began collecting surveillance data more than 40 years ago, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Hepatitis B and C are diseases that can lead to liver cancer and death.
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University?s Massey Cancer Center studying the interaction between the immune system and cancer cells have identified interferon gamma as one of the signaling proteins involved with tumor relapse.
According to the Federation of Medical Women of Canada, every Canadian girl and woman should have the option to choose whether or not to protect themselves against HPV diseases like cervical cancer and genital warts. As it now stands, only those who can afford the HPV vaccine have a real choice.
Nearly 25 percent of children at age two in Hawaii are not sufficiently immunized, and a new study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners explored reasons why children were not up to date with their shots. Dr. Niederhauser and her study team spent over 15 hours in the community talking with parents of under- and un- immunized children about their difficulties and issues with childhood immunization.
Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine?s Department of Immunobiology have discovered that the agent that causes tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, produces a new type of virulence factor called Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Pili (MTP). Their findings suggest that MTP could be a promising, new TB-vaccine candidate. Worldwide, three million people die each year from tuberculosis and an estimated 1.2 billion are infected with the bacteria.
A new candidate vaccine against hepatitis E, developed collaboratively by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), was found to be 95.5% effective in a Phase Two trial, according to a study to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that neurological disorders, ranging from epilepsy to Alzheimer disease, from stroke to headache, affect up to one billion people worldwide.
According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), only 4 countries (Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan) remain polio-endemic, an all-time low.