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...reducing the funding available to keep malaria-control initiatives going. As a new avenue of attack, the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) - which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - on Friday, Jan. 15, announced a collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Sabin Vaccine Institute to create a whole new kind of malaria vaccine. Called a transmission-blocking vaccine (TBV), it is aimed not at protecting individuals from the disease but at preventing mosquitoes that carry it from spreading it. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...viral infectious disease eliminated from the Americas in 1994, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 16,000 cases of paralytic polio were recorded every year in the U.S. before a vaccine was first introduced in 1952 by Jonas Salk and in 1962 by Albert Sabin. Only four countries are still listed as never having interrupted endemic transmission of polio as of 2006, according to the World Health Organization...
...early 30s, Sabin Prince's libido was waning and he wasn't enjoying sex as much as he once had. His urologist checked him out and told him that everything was normal, that he was perfectly healthy and that his problems were probably part hormonal and part psychological. Don't worry about it so much, the doctor said, you're psyching yourself out. Prince took the advice, tried to relax, and eventually started enjoying sex a little more. But he never fully regained his appetite - "I would go for four or five days longing to feel sexual," he says...
...March of Dimes supported the development of both the Salk and Sabin polio vaccines that eradicated polio in the U.S. Then the organization reinvented itself with a new mission. Today, it works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and other causes of infant death and disability...
Although the solid senior class of Stefanchik, Sabin, co-captain Lauren Bettinelli, first baseman Cecily Gordon, and catcher Annie Dell’Aria represents the only group during Allard’s tenure to depart without an Ivy title, the seeds were sown in 2005 for a ripe future with the young guns left behind...