Latest Human respiratory syncytial virus Stories
MILFORD, Mass., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for the treatment of viral infections, today announced that it has initiated dosing in a Phase I study of SB 9200, its investigational, once daily, oral therapy for the treatment of HCV infection. This study will be conducted in healthy, HCV-infected patients and is designed to assess both the safety and antiviral efficacy of SB 9200. SB 9200 is a...
GAITHERSBURG, Md., May 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MedImmune announced today it will conduct seven poster and/or presentations at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington DC, May 4-7, 2013. These abstracts advance the body of existing data and knowledge around influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prevention, highlighting MedImmune's continued commitment to patient health. MedImmune posters to be presented at...
Study offers understanding of asthma development The most common cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), can be transferred during pregnancy to an unborn baby, according to Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital research published online this week in the journal PLOS ONE. In animal models, the study shows that RSV is able to spread across the placenta from the respiratory tract of the mother to the fetus, and is...
Interaction between gene and environment predicts disease onset About 90 percent of children with two copies of a common genetic variation and who wheezed when they caught a cold early in life went on to develop asthma by age 6, according to a study to be published March 28 by the New England Journal of Medicine. These children, all from families with a history of asthma or allergies, were nearly four times as likely to develop the disease as those who lacked the genetic variation and...
MILFORD, Mass., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for the treatment of viral infections, today announced it has closed on a $10.5 million Series A financing. Proceeds will be used to fund Phase I clinical development of SB 9200, a novel, orally available treatment for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and to further the preclinical pipeline. The Company plans to conduct a Phase I safety and...
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today GenVec, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNVC) announced financial results for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2012. GenVec reported a net loss of $4.0 million, or $0.31 per share for the three months ended September 30, 2012, compared with a net loss of $1.5 million, or $0.11 per share, in the comparable quarter of 2011. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, GenVec's net loss was $10.9 million, or $0.84 per share,...
CYPRESS, Calif. and SAINT PAUL, Minn., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Focus Diagnostics, a business of Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, and 3M, a global diversified technology company (NYSE: MMM), today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided 510(k) clearance and CLIA moderate-complexity categorization to the Simplexa Flu A/B & RSV Direct test on the 3M(TM) Integrated...
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MedImmune, the biologics arm of AstraZeneca, today announced that the Journal of Medical Economics has published a study that shows Synagis® (palivizumab) is within the acceptable range of cost effectiveness. Specifically, the study relates to Synagis' reduction in hospitalizations due to serious respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease among eligible preterm infant populations covered by Medicaid and private insurers in the United...
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for nasopharyngeal wash, aspirate and swab in transport media specimens on the BD Veritor(TM) System for Rapid Detection of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This new product is cleared for use in clinical...
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC) announced today that data were presented on GenVec's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine program at the "8th Annual International Respiratory Syncytial Virus Symposium," which took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico from September 27-30, 2012. Data presented at the conference demonstrated GenVec's universal RSV vaccine candidate is highly immunogenic and produces durable and broad protection from a...
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes respiratory tract infections and is a major cause of lower respiratory tract infection and hospital visits during infancy and childhood. For premature infants and infants with congenital heart disease there is a prophylactic medication. During winter months in temperate climates there is an annual epidemic. Infection in tropical climates is most common during the rainy season. 60% of infants, in the United States, are infected during their first...
