Such drugs aid the diagnosis, cure, treatment, or prevention of disease.

Vaccines have always had a special meaning for me.

Only the major pharmaceutical companies, working in conjunction with basic and applied research centers around the world, can mobilize the necessary funding.

It now takes around 300 500 million to develop a new vaccine, for example, a malaria vaccine.

In the US, 80 of all antibiotics sold are administered prophylactically to livestock.

A health resort vacation is essential to us not only in terms of treatment, but also for the prevention of illnesses.

I was also given vaccines to prevent life threatening infections such as polio and measles.

The answer is to be found in the realm of prevention.

This phenomenon is called herd immunity, and it has been vital to vaccines effectiveness.

Vaccines were used to prevent viral infections long before the discovery of the actual viruses.

The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies with particular force to monetary policy.

Scientists haven't found a vaccine for cancer yet.

Now, am I saying, Oh, well, great prevention strategy.

Vaccines protect people for a lifetime.

For pharmaceutical firms, the development of a vaccine or treatment was not commercially attractive, and so it did not warrant investment.

Because vaccines are useless if parents refuse to give them to their children, a big part of my job is to collaborate with health workers, community leaders, school teachers, and local political figures to educate parents about vaccines.

There was no cure, and there was no vaccine.

There is currently no treatment or vaccine available for the virus.

When vaccines are not available, sanitation and disinfection can be effective.

ABU DHABI NEW YORK For a child, receiving a vaccine takes just a moment (and perhaps a few tears).

Influenza vaccine supplies should be increased so that more individuals are inoculated.

A vaccine against hepatitis B virus is proving to be effective in reducing the incidence of liver cancer.

Or perhaps the cost of the vaccine is a barrier in some of these countries.

Previous tobacco vaccines failed because they contained antibodies.

Similarly, vaccines exist to protect against pneumococcal disease, which accounts for a half million pneumonia related deaths annually.

Convinced that road traffic injuries are a major public health problem requiring concerted multisectoral efforts for effective and sustainable prevention,

Existing HPV vaccines can prevent up to 70 of cervical cancer cases, and new vaccines are in the pipeline that will improve this record further.

Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended including the hepB vaccine in routine immunization since 1992, its high price initially hindered its uptake in some developing countries.

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More recently, the same problem threatened to hinder the adoption of HPV vaccines.

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It should be about primary prevention, but it s not, she says.

Most of them explained preventive health care practices, like washing hands and boiling water.

Furthermore, the researchers note, the vaccine's efficacy increased with patient age, with the youngest patients deriving the least benefit.

Their method was not widely adopted until the 1950s, when poliovirus was grown on a large scale for vaccine production.

Environmental health, community health, behavioral health, and occupational health are also important areas of public health.

A single dose of the vaccine was able to protect mice against nicotine addiction for life.

Vaccines can consist of live attenuated or killed viruses, or viral proteins (antigens).

Judging from the outcome of last month s meeting of the ECB s Governing Council, that ounce of prevention appears to be right around the corner for the euro zone economy.

The country as a whole is classified as being in Zone 3, meaning that the strain of malaria found here is somewhat resistant to chloroquine (the most frequently used anti malaria medication worldwide for both prevention and treatment).

Containment depends heavily on vaccines, but vaccines are only part of the answer.

Vaccines are inexpensive and easy to deliver, and they protect children for a lifetime.

Now, retro vaccinology is just one technique within the ambit of so called rational vaccine design.

After three doses, the vaccine reportedly reduced the possibility of a child developing dengue hemorrhagic fever by 88.5 percent.

Their latest study is the basis of news reports announcing the final phase in testing the dengue vaccine.