After studies last week strengthened the link between Zika virus and fetal abnormalities, including microcephaly, as well as to the neurological Guillain–Barré syndrome in adults, World Health Organization officials have called for a meeting of the emergency committee examining the international health threat posed by the virus to discuss recommendations on travel, trade, and ways to […]
HIV
Well into the era of effective treatment for HIV, a question contributed to a lag in access to the life-saving antiretroviral drugs in resource limited countries: […]
Tuberculosis
HYDERABAD, INDIA – The world is one major step closer to a vaccine against tuberculosis, researchers said here, with results from a clinical trial of an […]
Research & Development
While the committee examining the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo emerged today from its 5th meeting with the conclusion that transmissions of the […]
Policy
A natural death: The political battlefield of infections and migrant children’s bodies – Tracing the events surrounding the death of eight-year-old Felipe Alonso Gomez in U.S. […]