With the aim to specifically cater to the Indian health scenario, the India chapter of Programme for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH), a global NGO working in 70 countries, is in the process of developing a...
The World Health Organization (WHO) 2012 Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty says infectious diseases remain key agents of the debilitating poverty afflicting so much of the world today. The...
To stop the transmission of dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that threatens some 4 billion people worldwide, it’s crucial to focus on people movement, not just on the traditional mosquito control-and-prevention...
Every year, between 3,000 and 49,000 people die from the flu and its complications. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which took the lives of between 20 million and 40 million...
One of the greatest medical achievements of our time is at imminent risk of being undermined by bad science. Thanks to a herculean effort by health advocates, 78 percent of children in low-income countries receive the...
A new study suggests that HIV may have affected humans much longer than is currently believed. In fact, the virus might have been around undetected for so many centuries that a human community developed some degree of...
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have mapped the molecular mechanism by which a virus known as cytomegalovirus (CMV) so successfully infects its hosts. This discovery paves the way for new research avenues aimed...
Patients with HIV who get vaccinated with a disabled version of the virus can, in many cases, fight the real one to a draw. A new study shows that injecting heat-inactivated HIV can awaken immune protection in some...
Scientists are learning more about superspreaders, people who transmit infections to a much greater than expected number of new hosts, including that they may be the driving force behind pandemics. During the 2003 SARS...
In an approach with the potential to aid therapeutic vaccine development, Whitehead Institute scientists have shown that enzymatically modified antibodies can be used to generate highly targeted, potent responses from...