Newly Developed Therapeutic Shown to Combat Drug Addiction
How Well Will The Flu Vaccine Work This Winter?
GALVESTON, Texas — The most effective way of preventing seasonal influenza is to be vaccinated each autumn. The reason that people are encouraged to get vaccinated annually is because flu virus can cause severe disease. One of the problems is that there are many different flu viruses circulating around the world and which ones circulate…
Researchers Develop Marburg Virus Treatment Effective Five Days After Infection
An antibody treatment successfully protected nonhuman primates against the deadly Marburg and Ravn viruses even when given five days after becoming infected, according to the latest findings of a collaborative team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., and Vanderbilt University. The findings are now available in Science Translational Medicine. There…
UTMB Develops An Oral Vaccine Against Salmonella
New Candidate Vaccines Against the Plague
Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed new potential vaccines that protect animals against the bacteria that causes the deadly plague. These findings are detailed in NPJ Vaccines. The plague of Black Death infamy has had the power to strike fear in people since the Middle Ages—and for good reason. Once…