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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - AIDS vaccine researchers should move to smaller, more focused trials and dump any vaccines that do not show strong promise, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative said on Tuesday.

It may be possible to use tobacco plants to grow personalized vaccines for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients, scientists report.

The government's chief medical officer for England says superbug vaccines should be available within 10 years.

A CDC panel has approved a new two-dose rotavirus vaccine for infants, a five-disease vaccine for infants, and a four-disease booster vaccine for children.

(DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) Naturally occurring nanotubes may serve as tunnels that protect retroviruses and bacteria as they infect healthy cells.

The unexpected shielding may explain why vaccines fare poorly against some invaders. Sandia researchers now have formed similar nanotubes that could be used to duplicate the phenomenon.

(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology scientists have discovered one for the textbooks.

Their finding, reported Friday in the scientific journal Immunity, illuminates a new, previously unknown mechanism in how the body fights a virus.

The finding runs counter to traditional scientific understanding of this process and will provide scientists a more effective method for developing vaccines.

Summer is here, and many people will be packing to travel. No matter where you travel abroad this summer, please don’t let your vacation be spoiled by getting the measles, flu, hepatitis, or any other infection that could have been prevented by using routine or travel-related vaccines.

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After Prince George's County schools opened in August, more than 2,600 students were banned from class because they lacked vaccinations for chicken pox and hepatitis B.

As the academic year nears its close, more than 900 remain barred, a school system spokesman said yesterday.

Parents worried that vaccines trigger autism are increasingly declining the shots for their kids.

That's raising fears that long-dormant diseases could return. What the science says about the real risks--and what you should do

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Families claiming that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism will challenge mainstream medicine Monday as they take their case to a federal court....