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Salk and vaccine. the words somehow belong together-like Fleming and penicillin or Einstein and relativity. So when Dr. Jonas Salk, the developer of the first effective vaccine against polio, announced eight years ago that he was coming out of retirement to tackle AIDS, many people cheered-especially the growing...
Undeterred by the skeptics, the medical pioneer forged ahead and joined forces with a private company to develop his treatment. Now Salk, 80, may get a chance to prove he has one more medical miracle up the sleeve of his lab coat. Last week an expert advisory panel to the...
-- A promising development in vaccine research: scientists have found they can use harmless proteins to trigger an immune response in the body. The discovery might help eliminate a problem with vaccines: that they sometimes cause -- rather than prevent -- disease.
-- An experimental malaria vaccine being tested in a Tanzanian village reduced by 30% the number of children who developed the parasitic infection.
-- Although the majority of infants in the U.S. regularly see a doctor, research indicates that more than half the nation's babies fail to get all the vaccine shots they need during the first seven months of life. Many have no protection against spinal meningitis and whooping cough.