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The rapidly-spreading virus has been declared a global health emergency in an effort to fast-track international action and research priorities.
The WHO says two experimental vaccines could lead to trials being done in West Africa in January, while another flu drug is being tested as well.
The winning research offers a new way of studying cells and disease processes by allowing researchers to see individual molecules inside living cells.
The arrival of such lamps changes the way places are lit, offering longer-lasting and more efficient alternatives to 19th-century incandescent bulbs.
The new bird flu strain that has killed 36 people has proved resistant to Tamiflu for the first time, a development scientists find "concerning".
The World Economic Forum has warned anger with inequality — evident from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring — risks setting back globalisation.
Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
The clinical trials business has gone global as drugmakers seek cheaper venues for studies and cast their net for pools of "treatment-naive" patients.
A US-Italian scientist is tantalisingly close to delivering the world’s first malaria vaccine.
Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome, did not get around to having his own genes analysed until last summer. And he was surprised.
President Jacob Zuma said on Friday the mandate of the South African Reserve Bank needs debate.
Early clinical trial results show swine flu vaccines produce a strong immune response, Europe’s drugs watchdog said on Thursday.
Malaria kills one child every 30 seconds, yet in many parts of the world the disease is hanging on by a thread and could be wiped out by concerted action, researchers said on…
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The first new vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) in more than 80 years has entered mid-stage trials in South Africa, where the killer disease is rife, scientists said on Saturday.…
Global warming could trigger hurricanes over the Mediterranean sea, threatening one of the world’s most densely populated coastal regions, according to European scientists. A new…
French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has launched a new cheap and easy-to-take combination pill to fight malaria that could help reduce deaths from the killer disease in Africa, it…
Childhood allergies are on the rise around the world, including in many developing countries where asthma, eczema and hay fever are emerging as important public health problems,…
