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Since chicken pox is just an itchy nuisance for most kids rather than a real danger, American health officials have been in no great hurry to come up with a vaccine. A shot was developed in Japan and has been tested in the U.S. for a decade, amid criticism that...
The anticipation surrounding the announcement of Jonas Salk's new, intensely hyped AIDS vaccine at the international AIDS conference in Berlin quickly turned to disappointment. In experimental trials it seemed to slow the virus' spread as advertised, but other researchers maintain that the effect is too small to be significant...
The list of influential yummies includes Concepcion Campa, a 41-year-old biochemist who runs the Finlay Institute, where she helped develop a new meningitis vaccine. She serves on the Politburo along with Abel Prieto, 42, whose casual long hair belies his importance as head of the Cuban Writers and...
A cure for influenza has always been elusive to researchers: the virus's outer coat undergoes frequent mutation, so a vaccine can attack only one strain. But newly synthesized enzymes designed by computer may be able to kill a wide variety of flu viruses.
A vaccine protects monkeys from becoming infected with an AIDS-like illness by vaginal transmission. This research may lead to a vaccine that can prevent heterosexual AIDS infection in humans.