https://techsomogro.com/biomedicine-update-malaria-vaccine-clinical-trial-encouraging/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biomedicine-update-malaria-vaccine-clinical-trial-encouraging Science, Technology and the Future Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:57:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://techsomogro.com/biomedicine-update-malaria-vaccine-clinical-trial-encouraging/#comment-10376 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:57:51 +0000 http://www.21stcentech.com/?p=11104#comment-10376 News of another malaria vaccine appeared this week. The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative is working with GlaxoSmithKline on a vaccine called RTS,S. It has been tested on 15,000 children in 11 African clinical trial sites. Half of the children were ages 6 to 12 weeks. The remainder were 5 to 17 months. This was a blind study with 50% receiving a placebo injection. The results – 56% fewer cases of malaria in the older group, 31% fewer cases in the younger group. This is encouraging news.

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