Clinical Outcomes of Specific Immunotherapy in Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jiang Chen, Guo Xiao-Zhong, Xing-Shun Qi

“…Specific immunotherapies, including vaccines with autologous tumor cells and tumor antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies, are important treatments for PC patients. …”
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Nucleic acid therapeutics: Past, present, and future by Sajid Naeem, Ju Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yu Wang

“…The field of nucleic acid therapeutics has been brought to the forefront by the rapid development of vaccines against COVID-19, followed by a number of approvals for clinical use including much anticipated CRISPR-Cas9. …”
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Retroviral and Lentiviral Vectors for the Induction of Immunological Tolerance by Inès Dufait, Therese Liechtenstein, Alessio Lanna, Christopher Bricogne, Roberta Laranga, Antonella Padella, Karine Breckpot, David Escors

“…They have been used for some time for gene therapy and the development of gene vaccines. Recently retroviral and lentiviral vectors have been used to generate tolerogenic dendritic cells, key professional antigen presenting cells that regulate immune responses. …”
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Du gouvernement des conduites à l'appropriation par les publics : un éclairage par la communication publique sanitaire by Caroline Ollivier-Yaniv, Nataly Botero, Myriam Hernandez Orellana

“…This interview traces the intellectual and academic path that led her to work on health and prevention communication, through fields such as HIV, cancer, smoking and vaccination. Her research includes the particular interest of addressing both discursive productions of institutions (prevention campaigns, public reports, links between political and media actors) and the reception and appropriation of these messages by institutional audiences. …”
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Availability of Veterinary Drugs Residues and Associated Impact on Vulture Health in Asia by Dau L. Bohra

“…Rabies infection is lethal unless vaccination immediately after exposure. The collapse in India’s vulture population occurred because of unintended poisoning following the availability of cheap generic versions of diclofenac for human use till 2008.…”
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Natural compounds from medicinal plants against COVID-19 by Anton Kolodnitsky, Nikita Ionov, Irina Gravel, Vladimir Poroikov

“…Nevertheless, all of them have certain limitations: uncertainty in duration, limited efficacy of vaccines, and lack of effective drugs for COVID-19 treatment. …”
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The Informed Consent in Allergology from a Scientific, Technological and Social Perspective by Marisela Luisa Pérez Pacaréu, Yanet Morejón del Rosario, Gloria Arlenys Suárez Rodríguez, Aleima Rodríguez Carbajal

“…This paper reviews the application of the informed consent within the specialty of allergology in procedures (skin tests), therapeutic interventions (immunotherapy) and research (clinical trials) from a scientific, technological and social perspective, based on the advances achieved in Cuba in recent years to obtain better allergenic extracts for testing, high-quality vaccines and new drugs to benefit the allergic patient. …”
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Tetanus Complicated by Dysautonomia: A Case Report and Review of Management by Nishant Sharma, Si Li, Metlapalli Venkata Sravanthi, Dan Kazmierski, Yichen Wang, Amit Sharma, Pragya Dhaubhadel

“…Tetanus is a life-threatening infectious neurological disorder that is now a rare disease due to the institution of wide-spread vaccination strategies. We present an uncommon case of generalized severe tetanus with consequent respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, which was associated with dysautonomia. …”
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Omicron: The rising fear for another wave in Malaysia by Lydia Ngiik-Shiew Law, Ke-Yan Loo, Joanna Xuan Hui Goh, Priyia Pusparajah

“…Pharmaceutical companies raced against the time to develop vaccines, believing that it would be sufficient to control COVID-19. …”
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COVID-19 Situation in Thailand by Yi-He Kuai, Hooi-Leng Ser

“…The health authorities in Thailand are constantly promoting the COVID-19 vaccination plan to achieve herd immunity against the coronavirus. …”
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Helicobacter pylori: Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Cure by ABR Thomson, CN Williams

“…Therapy of H pylori infection is complicated and involves dual therapy with an antibiotic plus a protein pump inhibitor, such as omeprazole 20 mg bid plus amoxicillin 1 g bid for two weeks, triple or quadruple therapy with bismuth, two antibiotics and an H2-receptor antagonist. Vaccination against H pylori is on the far horizon.…”
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EDITORIAL PAPER - MEDICAL TECHNIQUES by JT ADMIN

“…Health technology research could be in the form of procedures, vaccines, devices and systems as outlined by the world health organization in its Health technology assessment report. …”
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Evaluation of IgG binding capability to SARS-CoV-2 variants in early COVID-19 convalescent sera using an indirect ELISA by Behzad Hussain, Peizhe Zhao, Yu Liu, Bo Yang, Xiaoxiong Li, Zhichao Zhang, Guoqiang Feng, Demei Zhang, Defen Lu, Wu Changxin

“…These results indicate that the patients recovering from natural infection of early original Wuhan strain may have the potential to resist infection of current circulating variants and the vaccines using the prototype antigen may still work for newly emerged variants.…”
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Anti-phenolic glycolipid antibodies in Mycobacterium bovis infected cattle by Zijie Zhou, Anouk van Hooij, J. Hessel M. van Dijk, Nina Musch, Louise Pierneef, Hamza Khalid, Kees Franken, Thomas Holder, Neil Watt, Anita L. Michel, Jeroen D.C. Codée, Martin Vordermeier, Paul L.A.M. Corstjens, Elisabeth M.D.L. van der Heijden, Jayne C. Hope, Annemieke Geluk

“…The sensitivity for anti-M. bovis PGL IgM in infected animals was, however, moderate (44.9 %) and the false-positive rate was 6.3 % in SICCT-negative cattle. Notably, vaccination with BCG- or heat-killed M. bovis did not affect serum levels of anti-M. bovis PGL IgM in cattle. …”
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Transgenic Killer Commensal Bacteria as Mucosal Protectants by Luciano Polonelli

“…Unfortunately, current strategies for mucosal protection against candidiasis are severely limited by the lack of effective vaccines and the relative paucity and toxicity of commercially available antifungal drugs. …”
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A SEIR Epidemic Model of Whooping Cough-Like Infections and Its Dynamically Consistent Approximation by M.M. Alqarni, Arooj Nasir, Maryam Ahmed Alyami, Ali Raza, Jan Awrejcewicz, Muhammad Rafiq, Nauman Ahmed, Tahira Sumbal Shaikh, Emad E. Mahmoud

“…Through the study, we investigated the whole population into the four classes susceptible (S), exposed (E), infected (I), and vaccinated or recovered (R). The transmission dynamics of whooping cough disease are studied analytically and numerically. …”
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Leveraging dynamics informed neural networks for predictive modeling of COVID-19 spread: a hybrid SEIRV-DNNs approach by Cheng Cheng, Elayaraja Aruchunan, Muhamad Hifzhudin Noor Aziz

“…Abstract A dynamics informed neural networks (DINNs) incorporating the susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered-vaccinated (SEIRV) model was developed to enhance the understanding of the temporal evolution dynamics of infectious diseases. …”
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Vectors, Hosts, and the Possible Risk Factors Associated with Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome by Jin-Na Wang, Tian-Qi Li, Qin-Mei Liu, Yu-Yan Wu, Ming-Yu Luo, Zhen-Yu Gong

“…SFTS has become a crucial public health concern because of the heavy burden, lack of vaccines, effective therapies, and high-fatality rate. …”
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Beyond Borders: Understanding the Role of Drones in Healthcare Services in India and Abroad by Ankita Sharma, Bhavna Rani

“…Drones have the potential to be reliable medical delivery platforms for microbiological and laboratory samples, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, emergency medical equipment and patient transport. …”
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Metal Complexes and Their Potential Therapeutic Role Against COVID-19: Recent Developments in Drug Designing by Kanwal Ashiq, Bushra Naureen, Sana Ashiq

“…Despite the development of various vaccines, there is still an urgent need to design novel treatments backed with safety data for fighting  SARS-CoV-2 and its various mutants. …”
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