On International Women’s Day, the UK National AIDS Trust calls for further support for the development of microbicides and vaccines, new prevention technologies that could prevent millions of women from becoming infected with HIV.
The National Medical Association (NMA) issued a statement strongly encouraging “the appropriate use of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, but believes that patient participation should be voluntary.”
A Lao girl, 15-year-old, has died from bird flu, the country’s first confirmed death from the H5N1 virus, reported by BBC and Reuters today.
Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, on National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, March 10, 2007 :
Novartis announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Procleix? Tigris? System, the first fully automated nucleic acid testing system, to screen donated blood, organs and tissue for the West Nile virus.
Children whose parents and families are under ongoing stress have more fevers with illness than other children. Published this month in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, the study also shows the unanticipated conclusion that children’s natural killer cell function, part of the body’s innate immune system, increases under chronic stress, unlike adults, whose function is decreased.
UC Irvine researchers have combined genetic and geographic data of the H5N1 avian flu virus to reconstruct its history over the past decade. They found that multiple strains of the virus originated in the Chinese province of Guangdong, and they identified many of the migration routes through which the strains spread regionally and internationally.
New evidence suggests that the risk of HIV transmission may be highest in the early stages of infection. According to a study published in the April 1 issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online, early infection accounted for nearly half of all transmission occurrences in an HIV-infected population in the province of Quebec, Canada.
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has opened a new Phase I clinical trial testing an engineered measles virus against multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow that currently has no cure.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announces clinical trial data from two new studies, which show, for the first time, that GSK?s candidate pre-pandemic split antigen H5N1 vaccine, formulated with GSK?s proprietary adjuvant system, provides a substantial level of cross-immunity against a ?drifted? (diverse) strain of H5N1.