Academic researchers in Massachusetts believe the standard BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine could have a remarkable second use: a treatment to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes. The cause of ...

"This finding supports the hypothesis that common dementias may be triggered by viral or bacterial infections, and supports ...

The study emphasizes the limitations of the century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which fails to prevent adult pulmonary TB or latent infections. To overcome this, researchers are ...

U.S. Urology Partners is one of the first providers to offer patients ImmunityBio’s recombinant Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (rBCG) The FDA recently authorized ImmunityBio’s EAP for rBCG to address U.S.

The vaccine can cause a false positive TB skin test reaction. TB blood tests are the preferred tests for people who have ...

The child’s grandmother, who would care for him, also had tuberculosis (TB). In an attempt to protect the newborn from the disease, doctors gave him an oral dose of what was later named Bacille ...

Jane Akinyi (right) holding her baby while a medic adminster a Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine(BCG) vaccine at Forest Dispensary in Nakuru on January 28,2019.Most of the hospitals in the ...

BCG is one of the most widely used vaccines worldwide ... risk to a fetus and to use effective contraception. ADVERSE REACTIONS: The most common (≥15%) adverse reactions, including laboratory ...

Better outcomes were instead reported for the BCG-alone arm. Another Phase III ... Patients in the vaccine arm of the trial were shown to have worse outcomes than those in the control arm.

BCG, in use since 1921 and originally developed as a live vaccine against tuberculosis, also forms a key part of the non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) armamentarium. NMIBC accounts for ...

The alternative BCG source has been developed by the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume. In bladder cancer clinical trials in Europe, the ...