Could crossing your fingers alter pain levels?The thermal grill illusion is a sensory ‘trick’ first demonstrated by a Swedish physician, Torsten Thunberg, in 1896.…
Gates Foundation aims to cut drug registration times by 50% in sub-Saharan Africa by 2018 Speeding up the time it takes to register drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in low and middle income countries is a key strategy for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.…
Mandatory vaccination will protect all citizens We cannot allow freedom of choice to endanger the lives of whole populations, so governments need to step up efforts to enforce vaccinations.…
Prevenar 13 vaccine prevents pneumococcal disease in older adults Pfizer’s 13-valent polysaccharide conjugate vaccine Prevenar 13 has demonstrated efficacy against pneumococcal disease in older adults.…
Tetanus injection boosts immune response, researchers find Researchers have induced a stronger immune response to dendritic cell therapy in patients with glioblastoma using injections of tetanus and diphtheria toxins.…
Mandatory vaccination will protect all citizens We cannot allow freedom of choice to endanger the lives of whole populations, so governments need to step up efforts to enforce vaccinations.…
Ebola vaccine based on 2014 virus strain is safe, trial shows Chinese researchers have developed a recombinant adenovirus type-5 vector-based Ebola vaccine shown to be safe and “robustly immunogenic” in a phase I study.…
Patients can stop taking statins in terminal care, research suggests Discontinuing statin use in patients with late-stage terminal illnesses is safe and may even be beneficial, according to research in JAMA Internal Medicine.…
HPV vaccine Gardasil 9 is approved by European drug regulatorA human papillomavirus vaccine that protects against nine different strains of the virus has been given preliminary approval by the European Medicines Agency.…
UK to become first country to offer meningococcal B vaccine to babiesThe meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine is to be added to the UK’s national childhood immunisation programme, likely from September 2015.…