A new malaria vaccine has become the first in tests to be 100% effective in providing protection against the deadly disease. The promising results provide hope for a future cure.
An announcement this week confirmed China as a world leader in creating life-saving, inexpensive vaccines for the world. A Chinese manufacturer earned the World Health Organization's stamp of approval for its quality production of the first practical vaccine for use in the developing world against Japanese encephalitis, a disease spread by mosquitoes that kills15,000 children every year and leaves thousands more with brain damage and paralysis.
Diagnosed with a likely-fatal cancer, a woman near death was abruptly cured by an injection of measles vaccine so potent that it equaled ten million regular doses.
Today is World AIDS Day, and I just found this good news item about the US dropping its travel ban on people with HIV coming into the United States. The full removal of the ban takes effect on January 4, 2010.
In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don't bother getting their results. A new device can make an immediate diagnosis for HIV and syphilis in remote villages leading to drastically improved treatment.
We are in an era now, for the the first time, when we can foresee the end of the AIDS epidemic. said an expert speaking about the new pill, Truvada, a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people that was just recommended for use by a US advisory panel.
A baby, born with the AIDS virus, appears to have been cured scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi, who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
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A selfie video that a 49-year-old Toronto-area woman took to show numbness and slurred speech she was experiencing, helped doctors to diagnose her as having a mini-stroke.
Born with cerebral palsy, Nicole's lifelong dream of riding a bike seemed out of reach, until a controversial surgery gave her back full use of her legs.
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