Word: boosters
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...Recovery Act investment as well as through the support of Massachusetts and its partners. And I want everybody to understand -- Governor Patrick's leadership and vision made this happen. He was bragging about Massachusetts on the way over here -- I told him, you don't have to be a booster, I already love the state. (Applause.) But he helped make this happen...
...Recovery Act investment as well as through the support of Massachusetts and its partners. And I want everybody to understand -- Governor Patrick's leadership and vision made this happen. He was bragging about Massachusetts on the way over here -- I told him, you don't have to be a booster, I already love the state. (Applause.) But he helped make this happen...
...remarkable 48.5%. The holiday even broke sales records in 2008, when the economy was a real horror show. "A year ago, Halloween was all about escaping a crisis," says Toon van Beeck, a senior analyst for IBISWorld. "This year, it's more about a celebration. It's a mood booster." (See the top 10 celeb-inspired Halloween costumes...
Another issue is that the vaccine would require booster shots to maintain a consistent level of antibodies, so Volkow suggests that a successful vaccine would in theory be most useful for relapse prevention, rather than to initiate abstinence. "If you give it to someone who has gone through rehab and is trying to stay clean and relapses, the vaccine will be able to interfere with that relapse and that will be incredibly important," she says. When former drug abusers attempt to use "just once," it often leads rapidly back to full addiction, a cycle that could perhaps be curbed...
...vaccine was administered in two stages. First the ALVAC vaccine, which uses a Frankenstein virus of canarypox and HIV, was used as a primer dose, then AIDSVAX was administered as a "booster" to improve the body's immune response to the first shot. Half of the trial's participants received the combination vaccine, while the other half received a placebo. In the final analysis, 74 of the 8,198 placebo recipients became infected with HIV, compared with 51 of 8,197 participants who received the vaccine regimen...