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Adjuvanted bird flu vaccine approved by FDA

(FoxNews) The first adjuvanted bird flu vaccine has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Medical Daily reported. A vaccine adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine in order to improve the body’s immune response to the drug. The two-dose vaccine, used to protect against the H5N1 strain of bird flu, Read More »

December 9, 2013
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New DARPA project aims to make vaccines obsolete

(ArmyTimes) The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to reinvent the way bodies are taught to fight off deadly viruses and bacteria — without needing a vaccine to make it happen. DARPA, the secretive Pentagon research arm, has hired Pfizer, Inc., to lead a program to build a technology that would induce the body to Read More »

December 9, 2013
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December 8, 2013
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Scientists present groundbreaking HIV prevention research

December 4, 2013
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First real-time flu forecast successful

(Eurekalert) Scientists were able to reliably predict the timing of the 2012-2013 influenza season up to nine weeks in advance of its peak. The first large-scale demonstration of the flu forecasting system by scientists at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health was carried out in 108 cities across the United States.

December 4, 2013
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