Vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus: The time has finally come

Developing Vaccines against Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection

s S9 Developing Vaccines against Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Jun Chang Division of Life & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Dae-Hyun Dong, Seo-Dae-Mun Gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of severe lower respiratory tract disease in infancy and early childhood. Despite its importance as a pathogen, there is no licensed vaccin...

Respiratory syncytial virus vaccines.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most important cause of viral lower respiratory tract illness (LRI) in infants and children worldwide and causes significant LRI in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients. The goal of RSV vaccination is to prevent serious RSV-associated LRI. There are several obstacles to the development of successful RSV vaccines, including the need to immunize v...

Bioimpedance: Has Its Time Finally Come?

Bioimpedance, themeasurement of the frequency-dependent resistance to the flow of low energy electrical currents between two electrodes on or within the body, has been investigated for various medical applications for over 50 years. Applications in cardiology date back to at least 1966 and have included attempts to estimate stroke volume, cardiac output, cardiac contractility and lung fluid vol...

The time has (finally) come for the digital hospital.

Cancer and the circadian clock: has the time finally come?

W ithout the concept of time, there would be no physics, chemistry, or geology, but in medicine, time often gets short shrift. Yet in recent decades a small cadre of clinical investigators has found associations between the body's daily rhythms and the effectiveness of cancer treatment. Working in tandem, biologists have dissected the molecular underpinnings of the human circadian clock, a feed...