When this member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received his flu shot in October 2011, he had no idea whether he’d have side effects. Credit: Carol E. Davis/ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Imagine if you knew you were going to have side effects from a vaccine before you got it. It might dissuade you from getting the…
Continue reading How to identify a bad vaccine reaction before it happens
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Vaccines that appear scientifically feasible often move through development slowly because they have little commercial potential and thus have trouble attracting serious investments. Just such…
Continue reading Unfilled Vials
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By Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink (Read original article here. Clicking on links in story will take you to Science site.) Since 29 November, not a single new…
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HIV-infected people in a remote Zimbabwean village receive antiretroviral drugs at the local church once every 2 months. Photo: TJ Maposhere
HARARE–Every 2 months, a Land Cruiser stuffed with health care workers leaves Harare’s Chidamoyo Hospital early in the morning and drives 90 minutes east across…
Continue reading HIV/AIDS care for all—on a budget
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Delegates at the Lung Meeting donned masks to fight TB stigma. Photo ©Marcus Rose/The Union
CAPE TOWN—The international “Lung Meeting” held here last week was not your grandparents’ tuberculosis (TB) conference. The traditionally staid 46th Union World Conference on Lung…
Continue reading TB community borrowing a page from HIV/AIDS
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This 1463-day-old mouse is part of a long-lived cohort at The Jackson Laboratory. PHOTO: JENNIFER TORRANCE/THE JACKSON LABORATORY
The longest lived laboratory animals shed light on the forces that lead some to any early grave and others to beat the odds and see…
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Hepatitis C virus infects an estimated 150 million people worldwide. SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/NEWSCOM
Yet another stunning victory in the drug battle against the liver-damaging hepatitis C virus (HCV) may be in the offing: A small study suggests it…
Continue reading Study suggests unprecedented 3-week hepatitis C cure
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In the wake of mounting criticism that researchers pay scant attention to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) today…
Continue reading NIH refocuses research into chronic fatigue syndrome
Comments closedThe authors of a controversial 2011 trial that showed that exercise and behavioral therapy could help treat chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) today released a follow-up…
Continue reading Criticism mounts of a long-controversial chronic fatigue study
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