Rotavirus Kills 500,000 Children Annually Despite Vaccine Vaccines against rotavirus, a leading cause of diarrhea-related deaths among young children, first became available in 2006. However, a new study indicates vaccination has been slow to blunt t...
Medical Panel Recommends Boys Get Controversial Vaccine The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon recommend that boys and girls get a vaccine protecting them from the human papilloma viruses, a group of viruses that are transmitted...
Research Group Has High Hopes for New TB Vaccine Physicians have long known that the so-called BCG vaccine for tuberculosis does not provide the same level of protection against the disease in all parts of the world. Some also say the vaccine's effec...
今天我们要学的词是vaccine。 Vaccine, 疫苗。The Food and Drug Administration approved vaccines designed to protect against the H1N1 flu virus, 美国食品和药物管理局批准了甲型H1N1流感疫苗。 The first doses of the vaccine...
Celeb Vaccine Wars: Peet Beats Maher Comedian Bill Maher advises against vaccinations. But actress Amanda Peet--and Dr. Bill Frist--have it right: vaccines are good. Steve Mirsky comments In the celebrity vaccine wars, Im siding with actress Amanda P...
Efforts to eradicate polio have been frustrated by a variety of factors, and unlike smallpox, the disease has defied long-running and expensive efforts to wipe it out. Now, a new study indicates that one of several polio vaccines can be effective at...
MUSIC: Our World theme This week on Our World: Hopeful test results for a new malaria vaccine ... the debate over genetically modified foods continues ... and the promise and peril of looking for new medicines in the oceans. BROOKE: They are delibera...
By Melinda Smith Washington 24 March 2008 Scientists who have worked for decades to find a vaccine for the HIV and AIDS infections will meet next week at the U.S. National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to chart a future course for researc...
By Alex Villarreal Washington 22 February 2008 President Bush has wrapped up a tour of sub-Saharan Africa, where he focused on malaria and other health issues on the continent. Most health experts say controlling the disease requires many approaches....
