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Coming soon in the medical arsenal against cancer: vaccines
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's a deceptively simple idea: What if doctors could recruit the body's own immune system to fight cancer? The complexities of the immune system have kept this from becoming reality, until now. Three cancer vaccines -- for prostate cancer, melanoma and...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Oncology, Trials, Cancer, Medical Research
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Whooping cough still with us, still dangerous
Two days after her second son, Dylan, was born in 2005, Mariah Bianchi let out yet another deep-chested cough, this time in the hospital, where she was recovering from the delivery.
She had been coughing for two weeks; she had coughed so badly that her...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Coughing, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Symptoms, Pediatrics
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Facts about whooping cough
Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is a bacterial disease that infects the respiratory system. It is most dangerous to infants, particularly those who are too young to be vaccinated.
Symptoms: Children and adults suffer from severe coughing,...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Vaccines, Coughing, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health
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HIV vaccine feat leaves more questions than answers
Only hours after HIV vaccine researchers announced the achievement of a milestone that has eluded them for a quarter of a century, they began plotting their next steps -- and coming to grips with a sobering reality. Their ultimate goal, halting the spread...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Genetic Engineering, Columbia University, Trials, University of California, Los Angeles
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High hopes for a malaria vaccine
Each year, malaria kills more than 1 million people -- 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa and 80% of them younger than 5 -- and makes 300 million people seriously ill. Major progress in controlling the disease has been made by the widespread adoption of...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Trials, Immune System
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Last year's flu vaccine: All in all, not so bad
It was thrown together in a hurry, only aimed to protect against one strain of influenza, and arrived on the market well after the novel flu virus had gained a foothold in the general population. But last year's vaccine against the novel H1N1 flu, in...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, Immune System, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemical Industry
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Vaccine approved for anal cancer prevention
Gardasil, the vaccine that can prevent most cases of cervical cancer in girls, has won the FDA's blessing as a vaccine to prevent anal cancer, a rare but growing diagnosis in the United States. The drug agency's approval for Gardasil as an anal cancer...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health Treatments, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Medical Professionals, Cancer
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Vaccines for drug addiction show promise
Vaccines to help people recover from such addictions as nicotine, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines now appear scientifically and medically achievable after doctors reported Monday that a vaccine to treat cocaine dependence had produced a large...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Addiction, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Sciences, Trials
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H1N1 vaccine a tough sell to pregnant women
As the H1N1 influenza vaccine trickles into clinics and pharmacies over the next few weeks, public health officials and doctors desperately hope that pregnant women will be at the front of the line for the shot. Past influenza pandemics have proved that...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colleges and Universities, Pneumonia, Drugs and Medicines
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Autism: Kids put at risk
James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once.
Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, he had been placed on an intense regimen of supplements and medications aimed at treating the disorder. He was...Tags: Philosophy, National Government, Naperville, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colleges and Universities
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Ladies First
Equality of the sexes in the boardroom? It’s about time. The kitchen and the classroom? Absolutely. The doctor’s office? Now there’s a novel idea....
Men and women experience health in fundamentally different ways. Did you know that a...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Internal Medicine, Human Body, Jaw, Physical Conditions
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Edwin D. Kilbourne dies at 90; virologist developed flu vaccine
Dr. Edwin D. Kilbourne, a virologist who figured out how to manufacture a new influenza vaccine each year and was a principal advisor to the U.S. government on flu, died Feb. 21 in Branford, Conn. He was 90. No cause of death was released.
Kilbourne...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Genetic Engineering, Mount Sinai, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Colleges and Universities
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