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GlaxoSmithKline Donates 50 Million H1N1 Vaccines to UN for Developing Countries
Giant pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, is slated to donate 50 million doses of the pandemic H1N1 vaccine to the United Nations public health arm, the...
Fight Against AIDS Gains Ground
In a significant advancement, about 42 percent of people in the developing world who are infected with the AIDS virus are now receiving antiretroviral...
A World First: Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV Infection
"For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a...
Hundreds of Thousands to Participate in National Day of Service Tomorrow
Inspired by the massive outpouring of volunteers helping out in the days and months after the World Trade Center tragedy, Congress and the President...
Antibodies Found That Prevent HIV From Causing Severe AIDS
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can...
New Vaccine Could Save Bees from Colony Collapse Disorder
An Israeli company has developed a revolutionary new drug that could solve the problem of Colony Collapse Disorder, the disturbing syndrome that...
Cheap, More Reliable, Less Frequent Test to Replace Pap Smear
A new DNA test for the virus that causes cervical cancer does so much better than current methods that some gynecologists hope it will...
Vaccine Shields Monkeys From Simian Form of HIV
Raising hopes for the development of an AIDS vaccine that might actually work, researchers report they were able to protect monkeys against infection...
Scientists See Swine Flu Strain as Relatively Mild
Scientists studying the recent swine flue virus are coming to the consensus that this hybrid strain of influenza -- at least in its...
HPV Screen Beats Pap Smear
A test for human papillomavirus infection is better than the standard Pap smear at catching cervical cancer early, researchers report. The study of...
When Hope Heals: A Positive Sense of Calm and Control Helps Fight Disease
Cancer and AIDS seem to develop faster and more aggressively in patients who have less control over their stress, which is one reason...
AIDS: Microbicide Gel ‘Highly Encouraging’ in Lab Tests
The dogged search for a vaginal gel to thwart the AIDS virus earned some good news on Wednesday as scientists announced that a...
Research Breakthrough in Treatment of Malaria
A team of Monash University researchers in Sydney has made a major breakthrough in the international fight against malaria, which claims the life of...
Procter & Gamble Partnership Eases Cholera Outbreak, Donating 10 Million Liters of Safe Water
Procter & Gamble and global health organization Population Services International (PSI) are providing 10 million liters of safe drinking water to help prevent cholera...
HIV Diagnosis Inspires Life of Service
Anti-retroviral therapy re-energizes a Tanzanian woman living with HIV to give back to others who face the same challenges. She is a different woman...
Vaccine Slashes Diarrheal Illness in Kids
An oral vaccine for diarrhea reduced hospitalizations of children with rotavirus by more than 70 percent in some parts of the United States, saved...
Doctors May Have Found a Way to Destroy HIV
There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV. “We have found an innovative way...
2 Share Nobel Prize for Work on AIDS and Cancer
Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs...
Scientists ‘Make Bird Flu Breakthrough’
A Hong Kong research team has successfully tested a new drug combination that could help tackle the deadly bird flu virus in humans, scientists...
Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program Provides One Billionth Liter of Clean Water
The Children's Safe Drinking Water Program celebrated the creation of its one billionth liter of clean drinking water Tuesday at a rural clinic near...