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Examining Immune Response of Hepatitis B Vaccines in Patients With HCV

Drug Topics

Research presented at DDW 2024 found there was no significant association between immune response and hepatitis B vaccine types in patients with Hepatitis C.

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Temperature-stable tuberculosis vaccine induces immune response

European Pharmaceutical Review

Investigators assessed whether administering a temperature-stable vaccine containing both ID93 and GLA-SE in a single vial would be as effective at inducing an immune response as a regimen in which non-thermostable ID93 and liquid GLA-SE are held in two vials and combined prior to injection. However, Sagawa et al.

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Opinion: The next frontier in biomedicine: AI models of the human immune system

STAT

If the Covid-19 pandemic has shown us one thing, it is how little we really know about how the human immune system works. Decoding and harnessing the power of the human immune system is one of the great frontiers of biomedicine.

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Targeted treatments for childhood febrile illnesses possible with new immune cell insights

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

A study has identified subtle changes in how immune cells respond to different severe febrile illnesses in children, which could lead to improved treatments. In the clinic currently, our treatments for dysfunctional immunity are poor and not targeted to individual children.

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Could long Covid’s signs of immune dysregulation in the blood lead to a diagnostic test?

STAT

New research published Thursday in Science has identified proteins present in the blood of people with long Covid that could point the way to a much-needed diagnostic test and possibly to future therapeutic targets.

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Pandemic-related immunity gap in kids explains surge of respiratory infections in children in China, says WHO

STAT

The evidence presented to the WHO team pointed to what’s sometimes called an immunity gap that was created by the pandemic. But a rapidly organized meeting Thursday between the World Health Organization and health officials in China assuaged much of that concern.

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Chikungunya vaccine demonstrates 99 percent immune response

European Pharmaceutical Review

Instead, the study tested for an immune response at levels that are thought to protect against the disease if infected with the virus. The post Chikungunya vaccine demonstrates 99 percent immune response appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review. Results from the Phase III clinical trial was published in The Lancet.