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.
Queensland researchers say they have made a breakthrough in the fight to protect the shrinking koala population against chlamydia.
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.
The sight this spring of herds of Tibetan antelopes galloping unhindered to breeding grounds at the other side of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, alleviated concerns that the railway would disrupt their migratory-breeding route.
A burgeoning movement to make sports more sustainable has signed up 300 professional and college teams and venues to play ball with the environment.
Most eateries bank on restaurant week to bring in cash, but Baltimore's Tabrizi's restaurant is shutting its doors to welcome homeless folks to dine all week for free.