Some advancement on the herpes vaccine front: San Diego biotech Vical recently kicked off a Phase 1/2 trial of its Vaxfectin genital herpes vaccine – a therapeutic inoculation that’s melded vaccine ...

Billions of people around the world are living with herpes infections, prompting the World Health Organization to call for a vaccine against the incurable virus. About half a billion people ages 15 to ...

Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of an ...

While 75% to 95% of Americans know that diseases such as human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and genital herpes are sexually ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Herpes zoster vaccination is effective in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and multiple ...

There's more unwelcome news for sufferers of genital herpes. Less than a year after Genocea's experimental herpes vaccine went down in flames, Vical's VCL-HB01 met the same fate: no efficacy in Phase ...

William Halford had spent two decades researching and developing a vaccine that he believed could bring relief to the millions of people afflicted with herpes. Since 1995, Halford had been conducting ...

An analysis of data from the phase 2 portion of the trial showed the primary efficacy objective had not been met. A study investigating GSK’s investigational herpes simplex virus (HSV) vaccine ...

HealthDay News — A once-promising investigational vaccine against herpes viruses showed only 20% efficacy against herpes genital disease in a large clinical trial designed to mimic the general ...

The Herpes simplex virus is a widespread virus that often causes cold sores, and most people carry it. By removing a virulence gene, i.e. a gene that makes the virus harmful to humans, the herpes ...

May 12, 2011 — Giving pneumococcal and herpes zoster vaccines to patients during the same visit may be beneficial without compromising the protective effect of the zoster vaccine, according to the ...

Over nearly a century, vaccines for genital herpes have come and gone. Make that gone and gone, because there's not a single vaccine that can treat or prevent either oral or genital herpes. But some ...