One of Britain's most feared diseases - which kills or maims hundreds of children every year - could be virtually eliminated after the first-ever meningitis B vaccine was approved by European regulators. The new vaccine, called Bexsero, is the most significant breakthrough against meningitis in three decades
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.
Queensland researchers say they have made a breakthrough in the fight to protect the shrinking koala population against chlamydia.
20 years ago, basketball All-Star Magic Johnson stepped to the microphones at a Los Angeles press conference to tell the world he was HIV-positive. Not a single person watching on Nov 7, 1991 thought he would be around to hold another news conference 20 years later.
A new study says men who are heavy coffee drinkers are at a much lower risk for prostate cancer. Harvard scientists followed 47,911 men for two decades and asked how much coffee they were drinking. The researchers found that those who consumed six or more cups a day -- with or without caffeine -- were almost 20% less likely to develop prostate cancer. The heavy coffee drinkers were 60% less likely to get the lethal form of the disease. (NY Times)
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