Promising results from a clinical trial mean that the world’s first malaria vaccine may be available by 2015 and could save hundreds of thousands of lives. Promising results from a large-scale clinical trial mean...
Arguments against the pentavalent vaccine in India are inaccurate and pose a grave threat to children’s health, says T. Jacob John. It is easy to scare parents about vaccines because nobody wants to put the life of...
International experts recommend vigilance and promote targeted surveillance, market restructuring to fight H7N9, H5N1 and other threats. FAO has issued a new warning to the international community that the H7N9 and H5N1...
A recent report by the United Nations Programme on HIV states that new infections of HIV fell one third globally between 2001 and 2012. This means that there is considerable success in the effort to fight one of the...
Refusal to vaccinate children against whooping cough might have played a role in the 2010 pertussis outbreak in California, researchers reported. Analysis of the outbreak — the largest in the state since 1947...
A new vaccine being rolled out in the “meningitis belt” that stretches across north-central Africa has reduced cases of the potentially fatal disease by 94 per cent, doctors reported in The Lancet. Researchers monitored...
For the first time, the government is estimating how many people die from drug-resistant bacteria each year — more than 23,000, or about as many as those killed annually by flu. The Centers for Disease Control and...
A team of British scientists says it has made a ‘blueprint’ for a universal flu vaccine. Researchers at Imperial College London asked volunteers to donate blood samples just as the swine flu pandemic was...
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) discovered that an antibody that binds and neutralizes HIV likely also targets the body’s own “self” proteins. This finding could complicate the development of HIV...
Researchers have designed a synthetic molecule that tricks the AIDS virus into destroying itself. The compound, called DAVEI, was developed by researchers at Philadelphia’s Drexel University and causes the deadly...