Editorial

Vaccines Topic of First Nature Medicine Supplement

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 25th, 1998

Vaccinology, until very recently the Cinderella of the medical/pharmaceutical industry, at last has been invited to the ball.

Marking its emergence, the first supplement to the journal Nature Medicine is dedicated to vaccinology. The issue, which carries no advertising, is sponsored by the Merck Vaccine Division.

"Why vaccines'" rhetorically asks Nature Medicine editor Adrian J. Ivinson in an opening editorial. His answer is twofold: that there has been "a spate of vaccine research activity" based on "a better mechanistic underpinning to vaccine design;" and that there is growing government and public awareness of vaccine importance.

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