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In yesterday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, the researchers reported that the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine significantly reduces the risk of tuberculosis by an average of 50 percent.
Most interesting experience tabling for the blood drive:One girl came to me, convinced she was underweight to give blood, although I told her she wasn't. Then she thought she had just had a vaccine, but it had been over three months. I think she wanted to give blood...
Max E. Essex, chair of the Institute, said the funds would support AIDS education, provide training for scientists and clinicians and support vaccine and drug research.
There are many precedents for studying people with natural immunity in order to devise vaccines. In fact, the famous vaccine developed by England's Edward Jenner in 1796 resulted from his observation that milkmaids who had gone through bouts of cowpox enjoyed natural protection against the much deadlier smallpox. Plummer...
-- The Food and Drug Administration will probably approve a long-awaited vaccine for chickenpox by spring. Each year 4 million Americans, mostly youngsters, catch chickenpox; about 9,000 develop serious complications ranging from blood infections to brain damage, and about 90 die.