Vaccine Blocks Cocaine High In Mice

Published January 5, 2011

Vaccine Blocks Cocaine High In Mice
Novel vaccine is poised to move quickly into human trials Researchers have produced a lasting anti-cocaine immunity in mice by giving them a safe vaccine that combines bits of the common cold virus with a particle that mimics cocaine. In their study, published Jan. 4 in the online edition of Molecular Therapy and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the researchers say this novel …
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SD-area man gets 14 years for abusing wife
A San Diego County man who beat his wife with a wire hanger for two hours has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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UF Receives .7 Million To Study Marijuana’s Role In Immunity Among HIV-positive Adolescents
HIV experts at the University of Florida, along with colleagues at the University of South Florida and the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded $ 4.7 million by the National Institutes of Health to study how the complex interplay between marijuana use and HIV infection can influence the development of neurological disorders in adolescents…
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