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Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
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Another massive effort begins today to deliver a critical vaccine to as many Iraqi children under five years old as possible - 4.8 million children in total - even in the country's most insecure and remote areas.
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An international team of scientists, including researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, report using antibodies derived from immune cells from recent human survivors of H5N1 avian influenza to successfully treat H5N1-infected mice as well as protect them from an otherwise lethal dose of the virus.
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At a meeting held Thursday, Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Office of Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee said that there is substantial evidence of efficacy and safety of Dendreon Corp.'s Provenge (sipuleucel-T) for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.
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A new Hepatitis E vaccine was found to be 95.5% effective, in a Phase Two trial, in preventing disease caused by infection with hepatitis e virus and had a safety profile similar to placebo, except for injection site pain.
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Scientists from British biotech firm Acambis and Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology in Belgium invented a miracle vaccine which could protect patients from all major strains of flu.
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