MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018
Robert Hancock, a UBC microbiologist, has developed anti-inflammatory agents that, when used in combination with anti-malarial drugs, boost survival rates of severe malaria by as much as 50 percent. Read More »
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University have been granted a five year, $5.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a new vaccine against tuberculosis. Read More »
Flu vaccine makers have started to release production estimates that show a somewhat lower total of vaccinations than was estimated last year. Read More »
The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation may collaborate with the Serum Institute in Pune, India, to develop an injectable polio vaccine. Read More »
The California Senate approved a substantially reworked bill requiring healthcare facilities to hit a 90 percent flu vaccine health worker compliance rate by 2015. Read More »
Public health authorities in Ireland are preparing to roll out a national measles vaccination campaign following a major outbreak in County Cork. Read More »
A 13-year-old Indian girl infected with a strain of tuberculosis resistant to all known anti-TB drugs recently died from the illness. Read More »
Hong Kong health authorities were on high alert on Monday after a toddler was diagnosed with bird flu over the weekend, representing the area's first human case of the disease in more than a year. Read More »
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is appearing in a Colorado health department campaign to raise the rates of childhood vaccination, especially the rates of vaccination against whooping cough. Read More »
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a major increase in the tuberculosis rate among the homeless in the Jacksonville, Florida, area. Read More »
New research has shown that fewer parents in the United States vaccinated their children after hearing about a now refuted link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Read More »
Washington state has had more than 2,000 reported cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, since the beginning of 2012, hitting numbers that the state has not experienced since the 1940s. Read More »
Sanofi is hoping for positive results in September from an important dengue vaccine trial among children in Thailand that would allow it to market a vaccination by 2015. Read More »
Local health authorities in China reported that 29 people have been confirmed to be infected with tuberculosis at a middle school in Anhui province. Read More »
Researchers working in Papua New Guinea recently developed a new technique that determines the risk infants face in developing clinical malaria in malaria endemic countries. Read More »
Charles Mgone, originally an instructor on poverty-related diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS, has turned his attention to developing clinical trials for vaccines. Read More »
Pregnant women receiving the H1N1 influenza vaccine were found less likely to have a preterm or smaller than normal baby, according to a prospective study published in the American Journal of Public Health. Read More »
Giving children in malaria endemic countries a monthly injection against the illness could save the lives of thousands every year, according to a recently released report. Read More »
A novel type of antibiotic recently tested on patients with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis cleared the subjects' lung fluid of bacteria in half of the cases. Read More »
After more than 4,000 cholera cases and 64 deaths in Ghana this year following a first quarter cholera outbreak, health officials in Accra have announced a significant decline in the number of cases. Read More »
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