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Mental health programs in developing countries get boost from Canada
A Canadian non-profit group is giving $19.4 million to 15 projects using innovative ideas to improve mental health in the developing world.
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How medical sleuths stopped a deadly new SARS-like virus in its tracks
How a vigilant international scientific community caught the next SARS virus — before it became the next SARS disease. Four months ago, a mucus sample arrived in Dr. Ali Mohamed Zaki’s laboratory in...
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Why your car battery may be as bad as malaria for the developing world
Toxic pollutants, such as lead from batteries, are endangering the health of nearly 125 million people in 49 developing countries, new report shows.
View ArticleEgypt plans new vaccinations after polio virus found in Cairo sewer
Egypt’s Health Ministry will carry out a vaccination campaign for children in several Cairo areas after polio was recently found in the capital’s sewage.
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Drug-resistant infections could pose ‘apocalyptic scenario’, medical experts...
Antibiotic resistance is an increasingly urgent concern for public health officials, as new drug-resistant diseases emerge.
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Clouds of bacteria found at airline-cruising altitudes: Study
High above the wispy, cumulous canyons below, commercial jetliners fly through clouds of bacterial microbes — including some forms of E. coli — at typical cruising altitudes, a U.S. study has revealed.
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How to make a flu vaccine
As early as next year, more modern and more effective vaccines will hit the market, thanks to investments by the U.S. government and pharmaceutical companies.
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Did a swine flu vaccine give this girl narcolepsy?
Emelie Olsson is plagued by hallucinations and nightmares. When she wakes up, she’s often paralyzed, unable to breathe properly or call for help. During the day, she can barely stay awake.
View ArticleNew SARS-related virus an effective infector, study shows
A new coronavirus found in 12 patients worldwide can infect people's respiratory tracts as easily as SARS or the common cold, a new study shows.
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Acne study points way to more effective cure
Acne study that took gunk extracted from nose pores of 101 volunteers could spur innovative new treatment that uses ‘good’ acne bacterium
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Scientists say child born with HIV apparently cured, offers clues for...
There’s no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus’ genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world’s second...
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AIDS cure long way off despite success with HIV infected baby
No AIDS cure yet: HIV expert Dr. David Margolis says enthusiasm over success with Mississippi baby is unsettling
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Rabies-infected kidney kills U.S. transplant patient
More than a year after his kidney transplant, a Maryland man has died of raccoon rabies passed on by the organ donor.
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Bird flu: Deaths cause scramble to probe virus’s source
Health officials are scrambling to investigate a deadly new bird flu strain in China that has left two men dead and a woman fighting for her life, but so far, more questions than answers have emerged.
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India’s top court rejects Novartis drug patent bid in landmark ruling
Health activists say the landmark decision ensures poor patients around the world will have continued access to cheap versions of life-saving medicines.
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Bird flu: Third death reported in China from new strain
The emergence in China of the H7N9 strain of avian flu — a total of nine cases have been reported since it was revealed last weekend — is troubling because the strain has not previously been found in...
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