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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which makes recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expanded the group of children who should get annual flu shots to include healthy children ages 5-18. Previously, the recommendation included only those 6 months to age 5.

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Key Peptides Identified That Could Lead To A Universal Vaccine For Influenza Researchers at the University of Southampton, University of Oxford and Retroscreeen Virology Ltd have discovered a series of peptides, found on the internal structures of influenza viruses that could lead to the development of a universal vaccine for influenza, one that gives people immunity against all strains of the disease, including seasonal, avian, and swine flu... Biosecurity Runs Up Against Scientific Endeavor: NSABB And H5N1 Redactions In response to recent actions of the U.S... How New Viruses Evolve, And In Some Cases, Become Deadly Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the journal Science. The scientists showed for the first time how the virus called "Lambda" evolved to find a new way to attack host cells, an innovation that took four mutations to accomplish... Newly Engineered Highly Transmissible H5N1 Strain Ignites Controversy About Balancing Scientific Discovery And Public Safety Scientists have engineered a new strain of H5N1 (commonly known as bird flu) to be readily transmitted between humans. Two perspectives being published early online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians, raise concerns about if and how this research should be continued, and how the data should be shared for the benefit of public health... Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable... News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Saturated Fatty Acids Lead to Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Insulin Resistance Excessive levels of certain saturated fatty acids cause mitochondria to fragment, leading to insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, a precursor of type 2 diabetes, according to a paper in the January issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology... Bird Flu Kills Duck Farmer In Vietnam And Toddler In Cambodia On Thursday the Vietnamese authorities reported that a duck farmer has died of bird flu, coinciding with reports that a two-year-old boy in Cambodia has also died of the virus this week. The Vietnamese victim died on 11 January. According to the authorities this was the first human death from avian flu for nearly two years... Flu Pandemics May Follow La Niña US scientists propose that flu pandemics follow La Niña weather conditions in the equatorial Pacific. The conditions alter bird migration patterns and this promotes new strains of flu (migrating birds are known to be primary pools of human influenza virus)...

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Brain MRIs May Provide An Early Diagnostic Marker For Dyslexia
Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children's Hospital Boston. Since developmental dyslexia responds to early intervention, diagnosing children at risk before or during kindergarten could head off difficulties and frustration in school, the researchers say...

Human Hookworm Vaccine Trial
The Na-GST-1 antigen, a candidate for the first human hookworm vaccine developed by the Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin), has entered a Phase 1 human trial in Brazil, according to Sabin. For the vaccine product development partnership (PDP) headquartered at Sabin, the clinical trial is a considerable achievement. Worldwide, almost 600 million individuals are infected by human hookworm...

Impetigo - Ozenoxacin Phase lll Trial
The pharmaceutical company Ferrer has received approval to start phase III human trials of ozenoxacin, formulated as a topical treatment for infectious skin conditions. In February 2012, participants are expected to enter the multicenter, randomized, placebo controlled, parallel, double-blinded superiority clinical study, which is scheduled to complete in 2013...

New Drug For Advanced Colorectal Cancer Shows Promise In Trial
An experimental drug for advanced colorectal cancer that available treatments have failed to halt, has shown promise in a clinical trial, says Bayer HealthCare, the company that makes it. The results of the phase III trial show that compared to placebo, regorafenib slowed tumor growth and extended survival...

Medivation And Pfizer Axe their new Alzheimer's drug Dimebon
Pfizer Inc. and Medivation, Inc. announced results from their 'CONCERT' trial today. CONCERT is a Phase 3 trial that evaluated dimebon (latrepirdine), which is used to treat patients with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease. Dimebon is added to ongoing treatment with donepezil HCL tablets...

Preoperative Breast Cancer Treatment May Be Improved By Combining 2 Anti-HER2 Drugs
Using two drugs that inhibit the growth factor HER2 for preoperative treatment of early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer appears to have better results than treatment with a single agent...

Research Misconduct Revealed in UK
A BMJ survey revealed that over one in ten (13%) UK based scientists or doctors have witnessed that colleagues intentionally changed or fabricated data during their research in order to get published, whilst 6% of respondents reported they are aware of possible research misconduct at their institution, that has not been accurately investigated...

In Ovarian Cancer, Faulty Proteins May Prove Significant In Identifying New Treatments
OHSU Knight Cancer Institute study results suggest that more patients than initially thought could potentially be treated with a new class of drugs, PARP inhibitors A constellation of defective proteins suspected in causing a malfunction in the body's ability to repair its own DNA could be the link scientists need to prove a new class of drugs will be effective in treating a...