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Joint Ventures/Cooperation/Collaboration Vaccine formulated with ...  -  Feb 13, 2008
news aktuell (Pressemitteilung),The existing Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine (BCG) vaccine is a live vaccine that, when given to newborns, provides good protection against TB for 10-15

PhilHealth now covers childhood TB vaccine  -  Feb 13, 2008
Catanduanes Tribune,The inclusion of the bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine in the package was approved by the Philhealth Board of Directors as stipulated in its Resolution

A threat once more  -  Feb 5, 2008
Malaysia Star,The Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is a live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis. It has been in use since World War I and provides protection

'No health threat from BCG shortage'  -  Feb 8, 2008
Irish Health,The HSE says parents of any newborn baby who have not received BCG vaccine yet owing to the shortage will be contacted by their local health office with an

Crucell Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Results  -  Feb 12, 2008
FOXBusinessThis Phase I trial is a placebo controlled study in adults who were vaccinated at birth with the BCG vaccine. Enrolment has been completed and follow up is

ots: Sanofi Pasteur and Statens Serum Institut Team Up .  -  Feb 13, 2008
Stock World,...control of TB. We are excited to team up our research with one of the world's largest vaccine manufacturers. The combination of both used in the world today

ATX-MS-1467 - Positive Immunological Data In Multiple Sclerosis  -  Jan 30, 2008
ABN Newswire (press release),...one month after the course of treatment with ATX-MS-1467 while the T-cell response to PPD (a constituent of the BCG vaccine) was unchanged.

EHP health target achieved  -  Jan 24, 2008
The National,2007 for all antigens in children less than one-year was tetanus 100%, measles 95%, oral vaccine 78%, Hepatitis B 100% and BCG vaccine 100%,� he said.

Statens Serum Institut (SSI), Intercell (ICLL), and Aeras Global ...  -  Dec 4, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),The vaccine is a new candidate from a group of subunit vaccines against TB produced by SSI and aiming to boost the activity of the existing BCG vaccine.

Intercell Announces Launching of Phase I Clinical Trials of TB Vaccine  -  Dec 6, 2007
MedIndia,The vaccine, called HyVac4-IC31, is being tested among individuals who have been vaccinated with the BCG vaccine, according to a release.

TB Can Be Controlled  -  Dec 23, 2007
Gorkhapatra,Even children who have received the BCG vaccine can have a skin testing done. Children exposed to someone with tuberculosis will likely develop a positive

Even Measles, Still a Scourge  -  Dec 21, 2007
AllAfrica.com,The BCG vaccine is expected to immunize the child from the six deadly diseases of the world including measles. Every year, governments at the State and

Health Digest  -  Dec 15, 2007
Nashua Telegraph,Children given the BCG vaccine (for tuberculosis) or the pertussis (or whooping cough) vaccine. In the United States, the pertussis vaccine is administered

'I've HIV, but I love life, with my partner and son'  -  Nov 30, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,Then he became ill and when TB was suspected we were extremely worried because he'd had the BCG vaccine. Something must be seriously wrong, we realised,

HSE warns of BCG vaccine shortage  -  Oct 18, 2007
Irish Times,Newborn babies and adults at risk of tuberculosis may be unable to get the BCG vaccine in the coming weeks due to a European-wide shortage of the vaccine.

Shortage of BCG vaccine looms  -  Oct 18, 2007
Irish Health,The HSE has said there may be a shortage of the BCG vaccine throughout the country over the coming weeks. It said this is due to regulatory difficulties

Vitamin A Supports Immune Health  -  Oct 19, 2007
Natural Products Industry Insider,...by Lisa Frazier Researchers in Guinea-Bissau examined the effects of simultaneously administering the Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccine and vitamin A

Effect of vitamin A supplementation with BCG vaccine at birth on ...  -  Oct 5, 2007
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription),Objective: The objective was to study the effect of 50 000 IU vitamin A administered with BCG vaccine at birth on vitamin A status in both sexes.

Effect of high-dose vitamin A supplementation on the immune ...  -  Oct 5, 2007
Am J Clin Nutr (subscription),Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine is given at birth in tuberculosis-endemic countries. Previous studies suggest that VAS may influence the immune

Medical Edge -- TB testing encouraged even after positive result  -  Oct 1, 2007
Post-Bulletin,BCG vaccine is common in countries with high rates of active tuberculosis, but it's not routinely used in the United States.

WHO honours Thailand for providing vaccine to children  -  Sep 24, 2007
Mathaba.Net,WHO and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund have recommended that Thai children should receive a BCG vaccine inoculation to prevent

Cellestis Receives FDA Approval For Blood Test For Detecting ...  -  Oct 13, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),It measures immune responses to peptides that simulate M. tuberculosis proteins, which are not present in the BCG vaccine or most non- tuberculosis

Infant’s death kicks up a storm  -  Sep 27, 2007
Calcutta Telegraph,27: The death of a one-and-a-half month-old girl, allegedly after being administered polio drops and BCG vaccine, has kicked up a storm at Panitola in

Health Authority Working to Increase Immunization Coverage in ...  -  Sep 25, 2007
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service,Outlining the immunization schedule, Nurse Hind informed that babies usually receive the BCG vaccine at the hospital at birth and follow-up shots are given

Building Bombproof Immunity  -  Sep 24, 2007
Natural Products Industry Insider,A recent study investigating lactoferrin as an adjuvant to enhance the efficacy of the Mycobacterium Bovis Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccine,

Botswana Children Examined for TB  -  Oct 4, 2007
MedIndia,The health ministry also recommends the BCG vaccine and a similar preventive therapy for mothers with TB who breast-feed. The vaccination is provided at no

Science Health  -  Aug 30, 2007
The Muslim News,The new vaccine, known as MVA85A, will be given alongside the BCG vaccine and works by boosting the immune response to BCG. Results so far have shown that

Case 27-2007 — A 30-Year-Old Pregnant Woman with Intrauterine ...  -  Aug 29, 2007
New England Journal of Medicine (subscription),She had had varicella and had received bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine as a child. Four years earlier, a tuberculin skin test had been positive,

TB still a leading cause of death in many countries  -  Aug 24, 2007
OneWorld.net,The BCG vaccine seems to provide limited protection, and only to children. Vaccinologists are developing new vaccines which animal trials suggest are as

Back To School Countdown... Immunisation  -  08 Aug 2007
Jamaica Observer,Meantime, while there are certain vaccines that are administered to children within weeks of birth such as the BCG vaccine to protect against tuberculosis,

Southern Vietnam suspends TB vaccine after infant death  -  Jun 29, 2007
Thanh Nien Daily,Dr Nguyen Thi Thanh Ha of the Pasteur Institute said the BCG vaccine had caused no fatalities or serious complications in the last few decades.

'National vaccination policy needed'  -  Jun 8, 2007
Times of India,India's vaccination story began in 1948 when the BCG vaccine was offered for immunity from tuberculosis (TB). Sixty years on, the government estimates that

Discovery turns research into tuberculosis and leprosy on its head  -  Jun 29, 2007
innovations report,Till now scientists thought that the fagosome acted as a reservoir whence not only the BCG vaccine but also the contagious bacterium slowly multiplied.

Tuberculous Orchiepididymitis After BCG Therapy for Bladder Cancer  -  Jun 25, 2007
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (subscription)We report a rare case of tuberculous orchiepididymitis in a patient who received intravesical instillation therapy with BCG vaccine after bladder tumor

Your Health:>/b> Return of an old scourge  -  Jun 30, 2007
New Straits Times,That little reddish protrusion or scar is from the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine jab in Primary 5 or 6, if not earlier.

Schools in the front line as killer TB creeps back  -  Jun 28, 2007
Times Educational Supplement,Case figures had fallen steadily since the introduction of the BCG vaccine in 1953. Before the First World War there were more than 100000 infections per

Cancer immunotherapy - the story of an unrelenting quest  -  Jun 14, 2007
Destination Santé,Then, at the end of the 1960s various teams, in France in particular, conducted the first genuinely calibrated trials of the BCG vaccine to test this

Officials Find No New TB Cases At Vallejo School  -  Jun 15, 2007
CBS 5,...exposure in other countries where TB is more prevalent or receiving a BCG vaccine for TB that is not available in the United States.

New TB vaccines could protect all strains  -  Jun 3, 2007
News-Medical.net,...facility in Rockville, MD, opened in 2006, that has the capacity to produce 150 million to 200 million vaccine doses a year of a modified BCG vaccine.

In TB-prone Kutch, BCG vaccine runs out of supply; newborns in danger  -  May 9, 2007
Ahmedabad Newsline,Bhuj, May 9: In the border district of Kutch that is known to be prone to tuberculosis, the crucial BCG vaccine is in short supply, leading to many newborn

Kutch Area Runs Out Of BCG Vaccine  -  May 9, 2007
Vaccine Rx (press release),The BCG vaccine is in such short supply and not being supplied through the regular government supply channels as usual. Many individuals around the border

• Case researchers focusing on finding tuberculosis vaccine  -  May 29, 2007
Cleveland Plain Dealer,There have been no new TB drugs in four decades, and the lone vaccine on the market - the BCG vaccine - has a poor track record, particularly among adults.

Jab to fight asthma  -  May 23, 2007
Northwich Guardian,...could reduce childhood asthma It revealed that babies given the BCG vaccine to prevent tuberculosis were 27 per cent less likely to develop wheeze.

Poor immunisation in city slums  -  May 22, 2007
Chandigarh Newsline,While 82 per cent of poor children were given BCG vaccine, only 57 per cent were given DPT and polio third dose vaccines. Forty-three per cent slum children

Galway to begin routine neonatal BCG vaccine next autumn  -  27 Apr 2007
Irish Medical News,Currently, the BCG vaccine is provided by community medical doctors to fifth and sixth class pupils in schools, however, any other child at a greater risk

IMO welcomes BCG roll-out in Cork  -  Apr 20, 2007
Irish Medical News,All newborn babies in Cork will, from October 2007, be routinely offered the BCG vaccine against TB, with parents being offered information and advice about

Newborns in Cork to get vaccine  -  Apr 12, 2007
Irish Times,All newborn babies in Cork will routinely be offered the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis from next October, it has been announced.

TB vaccine to be offered to all newborn babies in Cork  -  Apr 12, 2007
Ireland Online,The HSE says all babies born in Cork from this October onwards will be routinely offered the BCG vaccine against TB. Their parents will also be offered

Tuberculous Epididymo-orchitis After Intravesical BCG Therapy for ...  -  Apr 25, 2007
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (subscription)Intravesical instillation of BCG vaccine for superficial bladder carcinoma has been well established, and several reports have suggested superior

Inoculation of babies against TB to resume  -  Apr 12, 2007
IrishExaminer.com,Yesterday the Health Service Executive (HSE) confirmed the BCG vaccine will once again be routinely administered to newborns in Cork from next October.

Joan Stephenson, PhD  -  Apr 17, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Older versions of the bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine used to immunize against tuberculosis may be more effective than some of the more recent strains

Fighting TB in Cameroon  -  Apr 19, 2007
오마�뉴스,Though many Cameroonians believe they can not contact TB after being infected with the BCG vaccine at childhood, medics say they can.

Brain Tumor Vaccine Shows Promising Results  -  Apr 16, 2007
SlashdotThe BCG vaccine for TB doesn't really prevent you from getting infected with TB chronically; it prevents you from getting a really severe kind of acute TB.

More precise TB detector coming to US military in S. Korea  -  Apr 22, 2007
Stars and Stripes,And the BCG vaccine tends to wear off by the time people reach their teens or early 20s, he said. Anyone wanting a TB test should contact their nearest

Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Xdr-Tb): The Facts  -  Mar 29, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),The TB vaccine, called the bacille Calmette- Guérin (BCG) vaccine, prevents severe forms of TB in children, such as TB meningitis.

TB outbreak in second Cork creche  -  Apr 11, 2007
Irish Health,The BCG vaccine routinely given to babies inoculates against it. After having been a scourge mid-century, TB was virtually eradicated in Ireland.

Tuberculosis Continues To Decline In New York City  -  27 Mar 2007
eMaxHealth.com,..."It's especially important for foreign-born New Yorkers, because many have received the BCG vaccine, which cause a lingering immune response.

Old vaccine hits TB like a blast from the past  -  Mar 12, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),A vintage BCG vaccine developed in the 1920s may be due a comeback after researchers found it offers better protection against modern tuberculosis strains

Fears for children denied TB vaccine  -  Mar 12, 2007
News Shopper,Two years ago, the Department of Health announced the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis would only be given to those considered to be most at risk.

Older TB vaccines 'work better'  -  Mar 18, 2007
BBC News,Older versions of the BCG vaccine may be better at preventing cases of tuberculosis than more commonly used modern vaccines, say French scientists.

Older TB vaccines work better  -  Mar 18, 2007
The News - International,PARIS: BCG is a vaccine, which protects against TB Older versions of the BCG vaccine may be better at preventing cases of tuberculosis than more commonly

TB Vaccines: Ring Out the New, Bring in the Old  -  Mar 18, 2007
MedIndia,French scientists originally developed the BCG vaccine, which has been running for the last 90 years, in 1908. They managed to make a strain of tuberculosis

'Frustration' over rising number of TB cases  -  Mar 25, 2007
News Shopper,Last year, in line with Department of Health policy, Bromley Primary Care Trust (PCT) withdrew the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG vaccine), despite evidence

South Africa: Acute Burden of Active TB in HIV-Positive Kids  -  Mar 23, 2007
AllAfrica.com,..."The next problem is that there's emerging data which actually shows that a BCG vaccine might actually be harmful to HIV-infected children."

TB is still a threat in community  -  Mar 24, 2007
The Olympian,In patients born in the US who have never received BCG vaccine - a vaccine used everywhere but the US and Canada to prevent TB disease in the very young

TB the silent killer - VI  -  Mar 9, 2007
Financial Express.bd,In countries where BCG vaccine is used, the ability of the skin test to identify people infected with M. tuberculosis is limited.

Tuberculosis: The Good News  -  Mar 23, 2007
Blogger News NetworkBut since many countries give “BCG� vaccine (which makes the body’s white blood cells sensitive to TB) that may be hard to interpret if the immune reaction

TB vaccine may have outlived usefulness: study  -  Mar 13, 2007
CTV.ca,A vaccine used to combat tuberculosis may have outlived its usefulness, a new study suggests. An international team of researchers, including Dr. Marcel

Intercell Shares Jump After Vaccine Report  -  Mar 15, 2007
Reuters.uk,The vaccine, whose development is supported by the European Union, is aimed at replacing the currently used BCG vaccine or to improve its activity,

Results Of New Blood Tests For TB  -  Mar 18, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...recruited 785 supermarket customers who had not received BCG vaccine against tuberculosis, the immunizing agent prepared from Calmette-Guéren bacillus.

Cases of killer TB disease on the rise  -  Mar 15, 2007
York Press,Dr Robin Ball, York's district immunisation co-ordinator, told The Press when the change to the BCG vaccine was brought in that it was not "very effective".

New Tuberculosis Initiatives in Honor of World TB Day March 24  -  Mar 22, 2007
eMaxHealth.com,...time due to the large population of students from other countries who have had a BCG vaccine that conflicts with the routine tuberculosis skin test.


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