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Sunday, October, 25, 2009

Herpes Vaccine

Q&A: Is a herpes vaccine around the corner?

April 22, 2009
A student has heard that a vaccine for herpes will be available in 2009 or 2010 and wonders if this will ever be a reality. A pre-medicine reporter says that a vaccine becoming available in the next two years is unlikely. She also gives information about herpes vaccines that are available, and she explains how a vaccine would have to work to cure people already infected with the herpes virus. Read more »

Expert & Community Posts

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Herpes Vaccine Underutilized
By Christina Lasich, MD , Health Expert

...  The advisory committee's recommendation for the herpes vaccine also extends to individuals... Read more »

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Is there anything new and/or promising on the horizon that gives
By Charlotte Grayson, M.D. , Health Expert

...years ago, researchers reported that an experimental herpes vaccine protected women who had... Read more »

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Should patients who have heart disease take vaccinations for flu, pneumonia, and shingles?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert

...discovered, most people with pneumonia died. The shingles (Herpes zoster) vaccine is new. The... Read more »

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What's Stopping Girls from Getting the Cervical Cancer Vaccination?
By Jerry Kennard , Health Expert

...in Sharepost about stigma in relation to genital herpes. Public health messages frequently use... Read more »

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Lots of shots.
By Dr. Bill Quick , Health Expert

...("HPV") for women through age 26 Varicella (chickenpox) Herpes zoster (shingles) Measles, mumps,... Read more »

Health Guide

Promising New Study Attempts to find Vaccine Against Genital Herpes
...nearly two-thirds of the population. If they meet these criteria, test subjects will receive either the herpes vaccine or a hepatitis A vaccine (as a control). Participants will receive three... Read more »
Herpes Simplex: Treatment for Genital Herpes
...Herpes Alliancewww.gotherpes.com -- Herpes support sitewww.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/stds/herpevac -- Herpevac (herpes vaccine) clinical trial information Read more »
Herpes zoster
... Shingles Prevention Avoid contact with the skin lesions of persons with known herpes zoster infection (shingles or chickenpox) if you have never had chickenpox or the... Read more »
Herpes Simplex: Medications
...States and Canada. Participants are randomly assigned to receive either three doses of the experimental herpes vaccine or an investigational hepatitis A vaccine. The women will be observed for 20... Read more »
Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus): Highlights
...adults with intact immune systems who are age 60 years and older receive this vaccine to help prevent herpes zoster (shingles). This includes adults who have previously had a shingles attack.... Read more »

Related News

Clinical Trial of Herpes Vaccine Begins
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A U.S. company has been given British approval to start a Phase I clinical trial of a vaccine for genital herpes. The vaccine, called the ImmunoVEX... Read summary »

Alzheimer's: An Epidemic: Diabetes, Herpes or Something Else?
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Its been 101 years since Alzheimers was first discovered by a German scientist. But we still dont know... Read summary »

One, Two Punch for Shingles
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DENVER (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Just choosing which shirt to wear makes a difference for Carl Bozeman. "I used to lean forward at work a lot just... Read summary »

Ordinary virus may cause high blood pressure
May 21, 2009

A common virus that affects 60 percent to 99 percent of adults may be a major cause of high blood pressure, a new suggests. In a new study performed... Read summary »

New Tool Promotes Safe Immunization
September 15, 2008

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Pediatricians now have a new tool to ensure nearly every child can be safely vaccinated against deadly diseases, including... Read summary »