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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While influenza activity throughout the US remains elevated, the number of states reporting widespread illness resulting from the virus decreased last week, prompting federal health officials to suggest that the worst might be over for this flu season, various media outlets reported Friday. According to Associated Press (AP) Medical Writer Mike Stobbe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported decreases in...
CHICAGO, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CURE (Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy) Grantee Peter Crino, MD, Ph.D, has found important new evidence that the Human papillomavirus (HPV) virus - the most common cause of cervical cancer - may be linked to childhood epilepsy. This breakthrough discovery may lead to a definable cause and treatment for focal cortical dysplasia type IIB (FCDIIB). Dr. Crino's work has significant ramifications for how we think about this type of...
Acti-Kare offers five ways to beat this historic flu season. Frisco, TX (PRWEB) February 06, 2013 Acti-Kare Responsive In Home Care is providing information to help patients and their families beat the flu this season. Most areas of the US are getting hitting hard with the flu virus right now and there are speculations that this could be the worst flu season in nearly a decade. Despite the numbers, there are ways to put up a fight this winter. The number one way to keep the flu at bay is...
8,000 low-income Americans to benefit STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AmeriCares is rushing to deliver 8,000 more doses of influenza vaccine to free clinics and community health programs to stem the continuing flu epidemic. Widespread flu activity was reported last week in 42 states with seniors at the greatest risk, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the number of flu cases is starting to decline along...
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning Wednesday at 9 a.m., MedSpring Immediate Care, a leading provider of immediate health care will offer flu vaccines free of charge while supplies last at their two Chicago-area centers located in Arlington Heights at 902 W. Dundee Road and in Naperville at 1190 S. Naper Boulevard. The Center for Disease Control continues to report elevated levels of the flu virus across the United States, and strongly recommends the flu...
QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Medicago Inc. (TSX: MDG; OTCQX: MDCGF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), announced today that Investissement Québec has agreed to a three year extension of the maturity date of its 2003 loan made under the BioLevier program. Originally, the maturity date of the loan in the principal amount of $15.3M,...
NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) announced today that CEO Dr. J. Joseph Kim will present an overview of the company at RetailInvestorConferences.com. DATE: February 7, 2013TIME: 3:00 PM ESTLINK: www.retailinvestorconferences.com > red "register / watch event now" button This will be a live, interactive online event where investors are invited to ask the company questions in real-time - both in the presentation hall...
[ Watch the Video: Discussing New Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new vaccine considered to be the most advanced for tuberculosis (TB) among more than a dozen now in trials has failed its study. Researchers said they were disappointed by the results of the study, which showed that the vaccine offered little to no protection at all from TB. Nearly 3,000 babies in South Africa took part in the study, all of whom had already been...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Federal health officials in the US have issued a consumer warning about fraudulent products making unsubstantiated claims that they can treat, cure, or prevent the flu virus. “As the flu continues to make people sick – and even cause deaths – scammers are alive and well, promoting their fraudulent products to the unsuspecting public,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday in a statement. “These scammers...
BLUE BELL, Pa., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) announced today that CEO Dr. J. Joseph Kim will present an overview of the company at the 15th Annual BIO CEO and Investor Conference taking place February 11-12 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Inovio PresentationFebruary 129:30-10:00 a.m. ESTA live and archived webcast of the presentation will be available on Inovio's homepage. About Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Inovio is...
Latest Vaccines Reference Libraries
Neisseria meningitidis is a heterotrophic gram-negative diplococcal bacterium best known for its role in meningitis and other forms of meningococcal disease such as meningococcemia. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality during childhood in industrialized countries and is responsible for epidemics in Africa and in Asia. In the US there are approximately 2500 to 3500 cases of N. meningitides infections. Children under 5 are at a higher risk as well as people in the sub-Saharan...
Poliovirus, the causative agent of poliomyelitis and a member of the family of Picornaviridae, is a human enterovirus. It is composed of an RNA genome that is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA. It was first isolate in 1909 and was published in 1981. It is one of the most well characterized viruses and has become a useful model system for understanding the biology of RNA viruses. It infects human cells by binding to an immunoglobulin-like receptor on the cell surface. The three...
