Boosting Newborns' Immune Responses

Newborn babies have immature immune systems, making them highly vulnerable to severe infections and unable to mount an effective immune response to most vaccines, thereby frustrating efforts to protect them. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 2 million newborns and infants less than 6 months of age die each year due to infection. Researchers at Children"s Hospital Boston believe they have found a way to enhance the immune system at birth and boost newborns" vaccine responses, making infections like respiratory syncytial virus, pneumococcus and rotavirus much less of a threat.
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Prevention Efforts Have Little Success In Reducing Illness, Cost

As health reform heats up, many lawmakers agree that the government should take a larger role in preventing disease. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that "many previous government prevention efforts aimed at costly chronic diseases have had little success in reducing illness or costs."

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Swine Flu (H1N1) Infectivity To Increase Markedly And Lethality To Remain Low According To Latest Replikin Peptide Genomic Data

Amid all the speculation over what course the Swine Flu epidemic will take, Boston-based biotech firm Replikins Ltd. last week analyzed the most recent peptide genomic sequence data available and determined that the infectivity of the H1N1 virus will increase markedly, while its lethality will remain relatively low for the immediate future.

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Boosting Newborns' Immune Responses

Prevention Efforts Have Little Success In Reducing Illness, Cost

Swine Flu (H1N1) Infectivity To Increase Markedly And Lethality To Remain Low According To Latest Replikin Peptide Genomic Data

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