Progress in Lyme Disease Vaccine Development

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Valneva reports the subjects in Phase II clinical trial of Lyme disease vaccine develop antibodies.  The results were positive enough to inspire Pfizer to join with Valneva to continue testing in the next phase of clinical trials and, hopefully, bring this to market. Find out more about the vaccine strategy and Lyme disease: Read More … Read more

Online Tool Helps Reduce Medications in Elderly

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Many people start taking a long-term prescription medicine sometime during adulthood. A particularly common one is medication for treating high blood pressure, which many people start taking as early as their 30s. As people get older, often more medical problems arise with more specialist doctors seeing the patient and adding more medications to treat the … Read more

Scientific Misconduct Casts Doubt on Basis for a Stem Cell Clinical Trial

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You may have read the commentary “Stem Cells Repair Injured Hearts” and then heard about the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decision to suspend a clinical trial using stem cells to treat heart failure due to oxygen deprivation, as occurs in a heart attack. The work highlighted in the commentary is by different authors and … Read more