Using two experimental anti-malarial vaccines, which work in different ways, can greatly reduce the number of malaria infections in animal
Combining different malaria vaccines could reduce cases by 91 percent
Cells can trap viruses in protein cage to stop their spread, study reveals
Researchers at The Francis Crick Institute in London have discovered that cells can trap viruses in a protein cage to
Long periods of viral suppression shown to reduce cancer risk in aging HIV population
Early, sustained antiretroviral therapy (ART), which results in long-term viral suppression, helps to prevent AIDS-defining cancers and also non-AIDS-defining cancers,
1.35 million children’s lives saved by HiB and pneumococcal vaccines since 2000
Childhood deaths from two leading bacterial causes of pneumonia and meningitis, pneumococcus and Hib, declined sharply during the period 2000
Treg cells protect babies from getting HIV infection from their mothers
Scientists now report that Treg cells, a type of regulatory lymphocyte, may be protecting babies in the womb from getting
Half of hepatitis C patients with private insurance denied life-saving drugs: Both private and public insurers continue to deny coverage for drugs at high rates
The number of insurance denials for life-saving hepatitis C drugs among patients with both private and public insurers remains high
Widely used e-cigarette flavoring impairs lung function
“Our data suggest that when used in e-cigarettes cinnamaldehyde, like toxic aldehydes in cigarette smoke, significantly disrupts normal cell physiology
Tuberculosis: Pharmacists develop new substance to counteract antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise worldwide. This is becoming a problem for infectious diseases like tuberculosis as there are
Scientists find link between increases in local temperature and antibiotic resistance
Bacteria have long been thought to develop antibiotic resistance largely due to repeated exposure through over-prescribing. But could much bigger
A single-injection vaccine for the polio virus: Nanoparticles could offer a new way to help eradicate the disease worldwide
A new nanoparticle vaccine developed by MIT researchers could assist efforts to eradicate polio worldwide. The vaccine, which delivers multiple