PARIS—An HIV-infected child in South Africa who is controlling the virus without antiretroviral (ARV) drugs has reinvigorated the push to find ways to allow people…
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The University of California (UC) has fired another legal salvo in the prolonged patent battle over CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing technology that has spawned a…
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The rate of new HIV/AIDS infections has plummeted in hard-hit Swaziland, showing the power of treatment as prevention. JON HRUSA/EPA/Redux
PARIS—New data from Swaziland, a tiny country in southern Africa, provide some of the most convincing evidence yet that aggressively ramping up treatment for HIV/AIDS…
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A new update on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic offers “scorecards” for countries that starkly highlight successes in green and failures in red (for an example,…
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Dr. Lukas Wartman, a physician and researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, puts in eyedrops as he works from home on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in St. Louis. Wartman was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2003 during his last year of medical school. His recovery has been complicated by graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) from stem cell transplants, where the donor's immune system attacks the recipient's body because it sees it as foreign. Photo: Whitney Curtis
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—A few months before completing medical school in 2003, Lukas Wartman was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a blood cancer that’s particularly…
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A hospital worker in Conakry in 2015 opted to receive the experimental VSV Ebola vaccine. Idrissa SOUMARE/Afreecom
As health officials and aid workers head to a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to respond to an outbreak of Ebola…
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As health officials and aid workers head to a remote corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to respond to an outbreak of Ebola…
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A man in the Guinean capital Conakry receiving the experimental Ebola vaccine in April 2015. Idrissa Soumaré
Ebola has surfaced in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the first outbreak of the disease since the West African…
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Q&A: First U.S. state-by-state analysis of hepatitis C cases In the infectious disease world, the liver-damaging hepatitis C virus (HCV) long has lived in the…
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