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News Outlets Examine International Efforts To Contain H1N1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A WHO official on Tuesday backed the Afghan government's decision to declare H1N1 (swine flu) a health emergency, forcing the closure of all schools in the country for three weeks in an effort to contain the virus, IRIN reports. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 5, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

MHRA Swine flu ADR portal extended to include reports of suspected reactions to the swine influenza vaccineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: MHRA Area: News In the November edition of the Drug Safety Update, the MHRA has announced that the MHRA Swine Flu ADR Portal is now extended to include reporting of suspected reactions to swine influenza vaccines. The MHRA recommends that when reporting adverse drug reactions to the vaccines, please also provide: . the brand name (Celvapan® or Pandemrix®) . batch number(s) . dates of administration of first and second doses (if applicable) . the reason for vaccination (e.g., patient is in seasonal flu at-risk group- please specify; is pregnant; is a close contact of immunocompromised...
Source: NeLM - Immunology and vaccination - November 4, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: organizations

Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Title: Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe?Category: Health FactsCreated: 10/20/2009 3:29:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 10/20/2009 3:29:33 PM (Source: MedicineNet Allergies General)
Source: MedicineNet Allergies General - October 20, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: consumer

Swine Flu Vaccination Awareness Campaign Launched In WalesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A major new press and radio campaign is being launched in Wales today to encourage people in the priority groups to get their swine flu vaccination when invited. Pregnant women, people with chronic conditions and those in contact with people with weakened immune systems are being vaccinated first because they are most at risk from swine flu and its complications. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 11, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

Thoughtful Words Help Couples Stay Fighting FitEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system. "Previous research has shown that couples who are hostile to each other show health impairments and are at greater risk of disease," said Jennifer Graham, assistant professor of biobehavioral health, Penn State. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 16, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Psychology / Psychiatry Source Type: news

Lipoic acid attenuates high fat diet-induced chronic oxidative stress and immunosuppression in mice jejunum: a microarray analysis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A high fat diet (HFD) has long been linked to immune dysfunction, including diminished numbers or reactivity of lymphocytes, increased susceptibility to infection, inhibited lymphocytes function during antigen-specific responses and developed oxidative stress. Whereas the molecular mechanistic events associated with immune deficiency remain to be fully determined. Using the DNA microarray system, we analyzed the gene expression patterns of lymphocyte related signal transduction proteins in jejunum of C57BL/6 mice in order to gain insight on the possible molecular mechanism by which HFD induced oxidative stress effects ...
Source: Cellular Immunology - November 18, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Cui J, Le G, Yang R, Shi Y Tags: Cell Immunol Source Type: journals

Vaccine To Treat Nicotine Addiction Steps Closer To Market As Companies Agree Option DealEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
An experimental vaccine called NicVAX, designed to treat nicotine addiction that works by stopping the drug from reaching the brain, moved a step closer to the market when the vaccine developer Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Nabi), based in Rockville, Maryland, US agreed an option and licensing deal with GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA (GSK), based in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Smoking / Quit Smoking Source Type: news

TMA Flu Fighters Dispel Flu Vaccine MythsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Myths about the flu shot are circulating like flu bugs. The Texas Medical Association's (TMA's) Flu Fighter physicians want to set the record straight about the safety of seasonal and H1N1 flu vaccines. Vaccines Are Recommended, and Safe The Flu Fighters recommend everyone get the seasonal flu vaccine. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 13, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Flu / Cold / SARS Source Type: news

Anti-transglutaminase antibodies in non-coeliac children suffering from infectious diseasesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Anti-transglutaminase antibodies are the diagnostic markers of coeliac disease. A role is suggested for infectious agents in the production of anti-transglutaminase antibodies. The aim was to measure positive anti-transglutaminase antibody levels in children with infectious diseases and to compare immunological and biological characteristics of the anti-transglutaminase antibodies derived from these children with that from coeliac patients. Two hundred and twenty-two children suffering from infectious diseases were enrolled prospectively along with seven biopsy-proven coeliacs. Serum samples were tested for anti-transgluta...
Source: Clinical and Experimental Immunology - November 13, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: F. Ferrara, S. Quaglia, I. Caputo, C. Esposito, M. Lepretti, S. Pastore, R. Giorgi, S. Martelossi, G. Dal Molin, N. Di Toro, A. Ventura, T. Not Source Type: journals

Novavax Launches Pivotal Clinical Study Of Novel 2009 H1N1 VLP Flu Vaccine In MexicoEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) announced that it has initiated a two-stage clinical study of its virus-like-particle (VLP) H1N1 influenza vaccine in Mexico in collaboration with Avimex Laboratories (Avimex) and GE Healthcare. Avimex distributes biological and pharmaceutical products for use in Mexico and more than 25 other countries around the world. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - October 21, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

Scleroderma - A Simple Blood Test Could Save LivesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Raynaud's is a common condition, especially in teenagers, affecting approximately 10 million people in the UK. It can vary from being mild to very severe but in many cases is no more than a nuisance in cold weather. However, for the 1 in 10,000 who develop Raynaud's after the age of 30, it could be the first sign of a serious underlying condition called scleroderma. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 6, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news

Petascale Computing Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight Into Genomic EvolutionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Technological advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing have opened up the possibility of determining how living things are related by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. However, inferring such evolutionary relationships from rearrangement events is computationally intensive on even the most advanced computing systems available today. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 18, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Genetics Source Type: news

Immunologist At Children's Hospital Receives Daland Prize For Patient-Oriented ResearchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A pediatric immunologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a prestigious annual award from the American Philosophical Society, an organization founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. Jordan S. Orange, M.D., Ph.D., received the Society's Judson Daland Prize on Nov. 13 for his contributions to research and treatment of inherited immune deficiency diseases. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 20, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news

Characterisation of influenza A viruses with mutations in segment 5 packaging signals.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Influenza A virus vRNA segments contain specific packaging signals at their termini that overlap the coding regions. To further characterise segment 5 packaging signals, we introduced synonymous mutations into the terminal coding regions of the vRNA and characterised the replicative fitness of the resulting viruses. Most mutations tested were well-tolerated, but a virus with alterations to NP codons 464-466, near the 5'-end of the vRNA, produced small plaques and replicated to around one-tenth of the level of wild type virus. The mutant virus supported normal levels of NP and segment 5 vRNA synthesis but packaged reduc...
Source: Vaccine - October 22, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Hutchinson EC, Wise HM, Kudryavtseva K, Curran MD, Digard P Tags: Vaccine Source Type: journals

Influenza virus CTL epitopes, remarkably conserved and remarkably variable.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) contribute to the control of virus infections including those caused by influenza viruses. Especially under circumstances when antibodies induced by previous infection or vaccination fail to recognize and neutralize the virus adequately, CTL are important and contribute to protective immunity. During epidemic outbreaks caused by antigenic drift variants and during pandemic outbreaks of influenza, humoral immunity against influenza viruses is inadequate. Under these circumstances, pre-existing CTL directed to the relatively conserved internal proteins of the virus may provide...
Source: Vaccine - October 22, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Rimmelzwaan GF, Kreijtz JH, Bodewes R, Fouchier RA, Osterhaus AD Tags: Vaccine Source Type: journals

H1N1 Is Now Most Dominant Flu Strain Worldwide, WHO SaysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The H1N1 (swine flu) virus is now the dominant flu strain worldwide, the WHO reported Thursday, with the virus accounting for up to 70 percent of the flu viruses sampled in some countries, the Associated Press reports. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 8, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

Swine Flu Vaccine Distribution To New York Companies Causes UproarEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The distribution of swine flu vaccines to big name companies in New York has caused an uproar as people complain that children and health care workers should receive top priority. The (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 8, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

The Public Health Agency Of Canada Updates Recommendations On H1N1 Vaccine For ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Public Health Agency of Canada today updated its recommendations on H1N1 flu vaccine dosing for children between 3 years and 9 years of age. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - November 15, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Swine Flu Source Type: news

Study Finds Girls Aware Of HPV Vaccine's BenefitsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Contrary to concerns that the human papillomavirus vaccine might promote promiscuity, a national survey of girls and young women found that the majority of respondents did not believe the HPV vaccine protected them against other sexually transmitted infections. The study, conducted by University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Chicago researchers, appears online and in the November issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.. (Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today)
Source: Immune System / Vaccines News From Medical News Today - October 16, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine Source Type: news

Gammaplex (human normal immunoglobulin) - New ProductEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: eMC (electronic Medicines Compendium) Area: Other Library Updates > SPC Changes Gammplex 5% w/w immunoglobulin, indicated for replacement therapy in: Primary immunodeficiency syndromes such as: - congenital agammaglobulinaemia and hypogammaglobulinaemia - common variable immunodeficiency - severe combined immunodeficiency - Wiskott Aldrich syndrome Myeloma or chronic lymphocytic leukaemia with severe secondary hypogammaglobulinaemia and recurrent infections. Children with congenital AIDS and recurrent infections. Refer to SPC for full details (Source: NeLM - Immunology and vaccination)
Source: NeLM - Immunology and vaccination - November 5, 2009 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: organizations