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U.S. Cancer Death Rates Continue to Drop, Report Shows
January 7, 2013 — The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009, shows that overall cancer death rates continued to decline in the United States among both men and women, among all major ... > full story -
Modified Antibodies Trigger Immune Response, Point to Novel Vaccine Design Strategies
January 7, 2013 — In an approach with the potential to aid therapeutic vaccine development, Whitehead Institute scientists have shown that enzymatically modified antibodies can be used to generate highly targeted, ... > full story -
Timely Reminders Boost Childhood Immunizations Rates
January 7, 2013 — New research shows that timely reminders from local and state health departments are more effective at increasing immunization rates than those from primary care ... > full story -
Consumers Judge Their Risk of Catching an Illness by the Cost of the Cure
January 4, 2013 — Consumers make irrational inferences about their health risks based on the price of their ... > full story -
Immune System Changes May Drive Aggressiveness of Recurrent Tumors
December 26, 2012 — The traditional view of recurrent tumors is that they are resistant to therapy because they’ve acquired additional genetic mutations that make them more aggressive and impervious to drugs. Now, ... > full story -
Study Turns Parasite Invasion Theory on Its Head
December 23, 2012 — Current thinking on how the Toxoplasma gondii parasite invades its host is incorrect, according to a new study describing a new technique to knock out genes. The findings could have implications for ... > full story -
New Process to Make One-Way Flu Vaccine Discovered
December 18, 2012 — A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered. Researchers found a way to make the one-time vaccine by using recombinant genetic engineering technology that does ... > full story -
Age Not Factor in Immunity to Viruses, Researchers Find
December 13, 2012 — A new study shows a specialized class of immune cells, known as T cells, can respond to virus infections in an older person with the same vigour as T cells from a young ... > full story -
Ebola Virus Uses a Protein Decoy to Subvert the Host Immune Response
December 13, 2012 — In a new study, researchers have discovered a potentially important mechanism by which the Ebola virus alters and evades the immune response of its infected ... > full story -
Does Changing the Price of Medicine Influence Consumers' Perceived Health Risk?
December 11, 2012 — Consumers assume their risk of getting a serious illness is higher when medications are cheaper because they believe that prices for life-saving products are based on need and not profit, according ... > full story
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