Category: Science

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…