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BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
A Most Victorious Vaccine A review of Jeffrey Kluger's book Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, which chronicles polio epidemics in the first half of the 20th century, and scientific efforts by Salk and his colleagues to create a vaccine quickly. |
Smithsonian April 2005 Jeffrey Kluger |
Conquering Polio Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk's polio vaccine a smashing success. Here is an excerpt from "Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio," which takes readers behind the headlines. |
Wired January 2003 Richard Martin |
Testing the First AIDS Vaccine Medical establishment, government, and Genentech be damned -- Don Francis has never stopped believing. Now he's about to finish testing the first human AIDS vaccine. |
AskMen.com |
Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Drugmakers' HIV Treatments Live On Companies that make HIV drugs could lose billions of dollars in revenue if an effective vaccine is developed. All drug-company investors need to keep an eye on up-and-coming drugs from competitors that could take market share. |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Cold HIV Vaccine Gets Frozen Phase 2 clinical trials of Merck's HIV vaccine were frozen, leaving the door open for other drugmakers that have vaccines of their own in early trials. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World August 5, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Vaccine raises hopes of an end to Ebola A Phase III trial for a candidate Ebola vaccine has shown extremely encouraging results in Guinea, demonstrating complete protection for all those who were vaccinated. |
BusinessWeek October 25, 2004 John Carey |
A Booster Shot For Vaccines New technology could speed the development of vaccines and keep the medicine chest stocked. |
Chemistry World January 22, 2013 Andrew Turley |
Flu vaccine without the eggs approved Flublok from US biotech Protein Sciences has become the first flu vaccine made using an insect virus to win marketing approval in the US. |
Chemistry World July 8, 2010 Sarah Houlton |
Antibodies spark HIV vaccine hopes These cross-reactive broadly neutralising antibodies bound to and neutralised more than 90 per cent of the HIV strains they were tested against. |
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Arthur Allen |
Heart of darkness A team of Los Alamos researchers traces AIDS back to the 1930s, blowing a hole in the most recent theory about its origin. |
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 John Carey |
New Vaccines For A Pandemic Using DNA, vast amounts of flu vaccine could be made quickly. But will the drugs work? |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Contracts That Are for the Birds Baxter and GlaxoSmithKline get bird flu vaccine contracts from the U.K. These contracts aren't reasons by themselves to run out and buy the companies' stock, but expanding income sources are almost always a good sign. |
Chemistry World December 3, 2014 Maria Burke |
Ebola vaccine passes first safety hurdle The vaccine was developed collaboratively by scientists at the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and at Okairos, a biotechnology company acquired by GlaxoSmithKline. |
American Family Physician January 15, 2004 |
Influenza Vaccine What is influenza?... Who is at higher risk?... What is the flu vaccine?... Is the vaccine safe?... etc. |
AskMen.com |
1 Million Swine Flu Cases? Swine flu has infected as many as 1 million Americans, U.S. health officials said Thursday, adding that 6 percent or more of some urban populations are infected. |
Chemistry World September 3, 2009 Sarah Houlton |
New HIV vaccine hope A team of scientists in the US has discovered two new antibodies that could lead to an HIV vaccine. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Anthony Tao |
The Avian Few: Is it Too Late for Pharma to Re-enter the Vaccine Fray? Small profit margins and high litigation risks drove most companies out of the vaccine business decades ago. As a possible pandemic looms, pharma re-enters the fray. Is it too late? |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Kerry Capell |
High-Velocity Vaccines PowderMed says its DNA technology would let it react quickly to a flu pandemic. A DNA flu vaccine would have huge advantages over traditional ones. But first, the company must prove in upcoming large-scale clinical trials that its vaccine can protect people from flu generally. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
Chemistry World February 9, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Africa's First Large-Scale HIV Vaccine Trial The first large-scale clinical trial of an HIV vaccine will involve around 3000 participants in five selected sites in South Africa. It will compare the effectiveness of the vaccine at reducing HIV infection compared to a placebo. |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2004 Rich Duprey |
Chiron Crisis Creates Investor Opportunity As flu vaccine maker flames out, other companies may step in to fill the void. |
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Gene G. Marcial |
How Immune Response Targets AIDS Immune Response's Remune is aimed at slowing the advance of HIV and delaying the need for antiretroviral drugs, which have toxic effects. A look at the company's situation and its stock. |
The Motley Fool June 12, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Be Careful What You Wish For Do you have the stomach to profit from swine flu? |
Chemistry World February 2006 |
Editorial: Fighting Avian Flu Participants at a world avian flu conference in Beijing committed to increasing cooperation on global vaccine and anti-viral research and development. |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Jason Gale |
Bill Gates' Latest Challenge: Polio Bill Gates is brokering deals with drugmakers to make cheaper vaccines available. |
The Motley Fool October 28, 2005 Rich Duprey |
Chiron's Bird Flu Contract As Asian bird flu becomes the crisis du jour, this flu vaccine biotech is awarded a hefty contract. |
Bio-IT World June 15, 2003 Malorye Branca |
A View to a Kill Genomics, bioinformatics, and novel laboratory techniques are converging to boost vaccine research against a new wave of emerging diseases, natural and man-made. Now, will in silico modeling ramp up sufficiently to further speed vaccine discovery? |
Health October 2007 Sarah Clachar |
Read this BEFORE you get a flu shot The flu vaccine may not be as good -- or as safe -- as you think. |
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Emily Anthes |
Debunking 5 Prevalent Swine Flu Myths Some theories circulating online argue that this combination of strains is so unlikely that the new virus must have been created by humans in a lab and then either accidentally or deliberately released. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
US agency fast-tracks Ebola vaccine development The US Department of Health and Human Services is fast-tracking tests on an Ebola vaccine by providing $5.8 million under a one-year contract with the Maryland-based biotech company Profectus BioSciences |
Scientific American April 10, 2006 Christine Soares |
Turning Yellow Yellow fever shot confers long-lasting immunity, a trait that medical researchers hope to transfer to other kinds of vaccines. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2005 Seth Berkley |
Backpage: Partnering for Vaccine Victories Public-private partnerships can help engage industry in AIDS vaccine research. Pharma and biotechnology companies should respond with the expertise that only they can offer. |
The Motley Fool August 21, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Forget Swine Flu: The Big Money Is Here Vaccines are pharma's, and possibly investors', best friend. |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2005 Brian Gorman |
Chasing Down Bird Flu Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline are emerging as the likely winners in the race to produce a bird flu vaccine. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2005 Sarah Houlton |
Global Report: Wanted: Attention Bird flu is number one on the media's agenda. But other diseases need better immunization, too. WHO estimates that in 2002, 2.1 million people died from diseases that could have been prevented by vaccines that WHO currently recommends. |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Hopeful Flu Production Technology From Baxter While the clinical trial demonstrating strong immunogenicity for the new vaccine is certainly good news, the continued development of the production technology is probably the more important item for investors. |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2011 Chris Baines |
Why Getting A Flu Shot Is Critical Vaccines save the lives of millions. By getting a flu shot, you're also aiding future vaccine research conducted by major pharmaceutical companies. |
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Kate Rockwood |
AIDS Vaccine Conference Despite billions in annual research dollars, the quest for an AIDS vaccine remains elusive. |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Brian Orelli |
The End of a Swine Flu Era A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended yesterday that next year's seasonal flu vaccine contain the vaccine for the H1N1 virus, aka the swine flu. |
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Ebola vaccine shown to be safe in humans GlaxoSmithKline's experimental Ebola vaccine is capable of triggering an immune response in humans, according to a new study. |
BusinessWeek February 4, 2010 Weintraub et al. |
Swine Flu: The Pandemic That Wasn't Swine flu is waning, but the lessons of H1N1 could come in handy during a more serious epidemic. |
Managed Care September 2006 Thomas Morrow |
Remarkable Work Went Into Designing the New HPV Vaccine The recently approved human papillomavirus vaccine is a prime example of how science is beating back the advance of old diseases. |
Bio-IT World May 7, 2002 Davies & Levitt |
Bridge Over Troubled Waterford Project For a project that links some of the best institutions and minds in AIDS research in order to produce an effective vaccine that could save millions of lives, funding should be a nonissue. Unfortunately, that is not the case -- and the bio-IT community has to find a way to remedy this issue. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 Walter Armstrong |
Vaccines: Progress in Preventing Bad Bugs Long on the sidelines of pharma R&D, vaccine development is moving to center stage as most of the big pharmas diversify, spreading their risk among the full gamut of revenue sources. |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Vical Gets a Helping Hand Japan's AnGes MG's Allovectin-7 vaccine is now a risk-free lottery ticket for Vical. If phase 3 trials show adequate efficacy, there's upside. If the trials fail, Vical really doesn't lose much of anything. Investors, take note. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2007 Victoria Gill |
HIV Vaccines 'Will Not Work' Just days after US drug firm Merck revealed its leading HIV vaccine candidate had flopped in clinical trials, a leading immunologist has predicted that many other vaccines in the pipeline will also fail because their design is similarly flawed. |
Chemistry World August 4, 2008 Pete Mitchell |
Vaccine failures shake up HIV research Prospects for an HIV vaccine have receded with the July decision by the US government National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel trials of its main vaccine candidate. |
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Kerry Capell |
"A Vaccine Every Woman Should Take" Two drug companies are closing in on shots against HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer. Despite the obvious benefits, the vaccines may not be an easy sell: There are social and moral hurdles to overcome. |
Salon.com December 15, 2000 Arthur Allen |
Warming to malaria With fears mounting that global climate change may cause the dreaded disease to spread, scientists turn their attention to vaccine research... |