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
Provita Pharmaceutical is working on a project (with funding from the Gates Foundation) to use mosquitoes to help carry vaccines against the West Nile Virus. And, everyone on the 15-plus person Provita team, from research and development workers to finance officers, is under the age of 18 and still in high school.Read More
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.
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.
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.
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.
Insulin pills and an artificial pancreas could make life easier, and treatment less expensive, for people with diabetes.
Grocery stores are brimming with foods packed with healing nutrients—here's how to use them to your advantage and bolster your health the natural way.
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.
A year-long $2.1 million study by the federal government agency, Health Canada, found no link between wind turbine noise and migraines, dizziness, or chronic illnesses like high blood pressure and diabetes.
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.
The more we rush around, the less time we take to be kind toward others and ourselves—there's a way to remedy that.
Fats are no longer 4-letter words. The latest scientific and medical data shows it's not the amount—but the type—of fat that matters, and the US feds agree.
A nonprofit medical research organization has developed a male contraceptive that is likely to receive the Food and Drug Administration's seal of approval.
Laughter yoga -- a new form of exercise that gives you spiritual satisfaction, stress relief and better health, is becoming all the rage in America, where people especially need a smile on their face in the tougher economic climate. (video)
A new medication management service started by a pharmacist's son promises no more traveling to pharmacies, sorting pillboxes, or chasing down refills.
Doctors across the United States commended California which enacted legislation on Friday making it the first U.S. state to prohibit restaurants from preparing food with trans fats, which clog arteries and raise the risk of heart disease.
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