Vaccine Weekly

Influenza Vaccine - Biotechnology company to ship 1.2M doses of flu vaccine to Canadian market

Influenza Vaccine - Flu shots available to Vermont adults 65 years and up and to babies

Influenza Vaccine - Health Department: New Hampshire has enough flu vaccine

Influenza Vaccine - Iowa health officials expand flu vaccine eligibility list

Influenza Vaccine - Kansas expands list of people eligible to receive flu vaccine

Influenza Vaccine - South Carolina Dept. of Health and Environmental Control gets more flu shots

Influenza Vaccine - Steady demand for flu shots in Rhode Island

Influenza Vaccine - Transcriptional analysis of PBMCs after influenza immunization reported

Influenza Vaccine - Vaccine company commented on influenza vaccine supply and distribution

Influenza Vaccine - Washington still has plenty of flu vaccine for high-priority kids

Influenza Virus - German recommendations for antiviral treatment of influenza outlined

Information Technology - $19.7M awarded for development of biodefense vaccines

Leukemia - Peptide vaccine can produce remission in myeloid leukemia patients

Lung Cancer - Immunotherapy vaccine trial of lung cancer treatment results reported

Malaria Vaccine - Serine repeat antigen gene family phylogeny in Plasmodium investigated

Nematode Infection - T helper cell responsiveness predicts susceptibility to nematodes in humans

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma - Phase 1 data of talabostat in non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients presented

Pain Medicine - Enrollment target reached for opioid-induced constipation trial

Patents - New European patent issued for manufacture of nanoparticles

Personnel - Philippe Archinard named CEO of French cancer-focused biopharmaceutical company

Pneumococcal Vaccine - Azithromycin modulates murine immune responses to pneumococcal vaccine

Pneumococcal Vaccine - Colostrum from pneumococcal-vaccinated women inhibits Streptococcus adhesion

Polio Vaccine - Poliovirus-specific antibody response may promote Bifidobacterium

Proteomics - Polyclonal antibodies used as tool for proteomics research

Pseudomonas Vaccine -  Pseudomonas aeruginosa alginate antibodies protect against infection

Rheumatoid Arthritis - Mutant IL-15/Fc protein prevents development of collagen-induced arthritis

SARS - SARS vaccine primarily proved safe and effective

SARS - U.S. government launching human trials of experimental SARS vaccine

SARS Vaccine - Expression system for release of SARS coronavirus-like particles developed

Staphylococcus Vaccine - Prospective targets for staphylococci drugs and vaccines reviewed

Stock Market - Sinovac Biotech Ltd. begins trading on American Stock Exchange

Tetanus Vaccine - Postsurgical tetanus reviewed

Trichomoniasis - Treatment metronidazole-resistant Trichomonas vaginalis infections reviewed

Tuberculosis Vaccine - New issues in tuberculosis outlined

Tuberculosis Vaccine - Recombinant vaccinia virus boosts antimycobacterial immunity in humans

Typhoid Vaccine - CD8+ T cell subset identified in patients immunized with typhoid vaccine

Vaccine Delivery - Method to deliver micro-particles into skin developed

Vaccine Development -  Staphylococcus aureus polysaccharide conjugate vaccine development update

Vaccine Development - Bovine aortic endothelial cell immunization stalls glioma neovascularization

Vaccine Development - Encapsulated hepatitis B antigen boosts immunogenicity with a single dose

Vaccine Development - Poll indicates need for more vaccine products

Vaccine Development - Vaccination in humans generates broad T cell cytokine responses

Vaccine Schedules - Two-dose regimens improve adolescent hepatitis B vaccination uptake

Vector Development - Dendritic cell-based helper-dependent vectors limit antiviral activity

Vibrio Vaccine - Immune responses of barramundi to Vibrio harveyi bacterin described

Virology - Viral chemokine affects mucosal immunity differently than mammalian chemokine

West Nile Virus - U.S. NIH awards $15.5 million for West Nile virus, dengue vaccines