Posts Tagged ‘vaccine’
Trial offers glimmer of hope for AIDS vaccine
Friday, December 18, 2009, 1:22 amAfter taunting researchers for 30 years, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has relented a bit – at least that’s how many infectious disease experts are now interpreting results from two vaccine trials.
The first trial was a huge disappointment. The experimental vaccine, developed by U.S. drugmaker Merck, failed to prevent HIV infections so miserably, Merck halted the trial in September 2007. Two years later, results from the second trial were more promising. The trial was conducted in Thailand, involved more than 16,000 volunteers and used a combination of two vaccines. But three months after the results were released, questions persist whether the modest preventative effect of the Thai vaccine combo was real or due to chance.
Dr. Myron Cohen
Dr. Myron Cohen, a leading HIV/AIDS expert at the University of North Carolina, considers the results from the Thai vaccine trial “the first glimmer of hope” that there is a way to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in poor countries. Read more…
AIDS: Closing in on a cure
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 3:04 pm
HIV
It took a generation, but researchers now dare to speak of a cure for HIV, the virus that triggered the AIDS epidemic in the late 1970s.
A laboratory experiment with a special mouse gives them hope.
In Holly Springs, Novartis leaves chicken out of flu vaccine recipe
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 8:22 amThe flu vaccine manufacturing plant that Novartis is about to finish about 20 miles southwest of North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park promises better and faster protection for humans without the carnage to chicken offspring.
