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China faces 'serious' epidemic of drug-resistant TB
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
China faces a "serious epidemic" of drug-resistant tuberculosis according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of the size of the problem there, said a US-publ...
Anti-inflammatory drugs may improve survival from severe malaria
Jun 04, 2012 (SPX)
A novel anti-inflammatory drug could help to improve survival in the most severe cases of malaria by preventing the immune system from causing irrevocable brain...
Hong Kong sees first human bird flu case in 18 months
Jun 02, 2012 (AFP)
Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the southern Chinese city reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in...
Powerful new approach to attack flu virus
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
international research team has manufactured a new protein that can combat deadly flu epidemics. The paper, featured on the cover of the current issue of Nature...
Targeting tuberculosis 'hotspots' could have widespread benefit
May 31, 2012 (SPX)
Reducing tuberculosis transmission in geographic "hotspots" where infections are highest could significantly reduce TB transmission on a broader scale, accordin...
AIDS treatment in S.Africa send baby infections plunging
May 31, 2012 (AFP)
One-year-old Katakane laughs and coos in the arms of her HIV-positive mother as a doctor tries to examine her at South Africa's largest public hospital, in Sowe...
Analyzing disease transmission at the community level
May 29, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found evidence of a role for neighborhood immunity in determining risk of dengue infecti...
Cambodian girl, 10, dies from bird flu: WHO
May 28, 2012 (AFP)
A 10-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said Monday, the country's third fatality from the virulent disease this year...
Flu shots during pregnancy could benefit babies: study
May 23, 2012 (AFP)
Women who get flu shots while pregnant could also be protecting the health of their babies before and after birth, a new study suggests. Using statistics from t...
New discoveries about severe malaria
May 23, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), the University of Copenhagen and the University of Edinburgh have uncovered new knowled...
Biologists produce potential malarial vaccine from algae
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent trans...
Health experts narrow the hunt for Ebola
May 18, 2012 (SPX)
Response efforts to outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa can benefit from a standardized sampling strategy that focuses on the carcasses of gorillas, ...
HIV may afflict almost half Asia-Pacific transgenders: UN
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Nearly half of transgender people in the Asia-Pacific region could have HIV as poor healthcare and high-risk lifestyles push infection rates to "critical levels...
US AIDS relief program saved 740,000 lives: study
May 15, 2012 (AFP)
A US aid program aimed at helping foreign countries battle the AIDS epidemic saved 740,000 lives from 2004-2008, according to a US study published Tuesday. The ...
Botswana makes new pitch for circumcision in AIDS fight
May 14, 2012 (AFP)
"Should I, shouldn't I?" That's the question that 31-year-old Kabo Moeti ponders as he waits outside a clinic in a Botswana village, where he's considering gett...
HIV/AIDS patients at higher risk of cardiac death: study
May 14, 2012 (AFP)
People suffering from HIV/AIDS are at much higher risk than the general population of sudden cardiac death, researchers in California have found. In a paper pub...
Advanced genetic screening method may speed vaccine development
May 11, 2012 (SPX)
Infectious diseases-both old and new-continue to exact a devastating toll, causing some 13 million fatalities per year around the world. Vaccines remain the bes...
African scientist, designer partner to fashion anti-malaria garment that wards off bugs
May 11, 2012 (SPX)
A Cornell University scientist and designer from Africa have together created a fashionable hooded bodysuit embedded at the molecular level with insecticides fo...
US experts urge approval of first AIDS prevention pill
May 10, 2012 (AFP)
US health advisers on Thursday urged regulators to approve Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences, as the first preventive pill against HIV/AIDS instead of just a tre...
After epic debate, avian flu research sees light of day
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in mammals, and an unprecedented recommen...
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