Health care workers have been especially hard hit by the current outbreak of Ebola in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo…
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One week after celebrating the end of a potentially explosive Ebola outbreak in Équateur province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Peter Salama…
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Mylan, lambasted for EpiPen price hikes, complains of overpriced anti-HIV drugs in the United States
Mylan, a giant generic drugmaker headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, that took a bashing in 2016 for steeply raising the price of its EpiPen that treats severe…
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An experimental Ebola vaccine will likely be used again in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to help end an outbreak. Roughly a week after…
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The ambitious campaign to “end AIDS” by 2030 is badly off track, officials said at the International AIDS Conference here last week. Funding for efforts…
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When Science published a monkey study nearly 2 years ago that showed an anti-inflammatory antibody effectively cured monkeys intentionally infected with the simian form of the AIDS…
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Dolutegravir, which enjoys a reputation as the best of 32 marketed antiretroviral drugs, took a serious hit in May when a preliminary analysis from a…
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An Ebola outbreak that erupted 8 May in a remote region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and then threatened to explode in…
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An antibiotic-defying strain of the bacterium that causes typhoid fever is gaining a foothold in Pakistan, leading some researchers to warn that it could turn…
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