Researchers have found a way to activate Epstein-Barr viruses inside tumors as a way to identify patients whose infection can then be manipulated to destroy their tumors.
A Johns Hopkins study has proven false established medical practice that an antiretroviral drug widely used to treat hepatitis B liver infections was safe to use on its own in patients co-infected with HIV.
A comparison of the 1918 Spanish influenza and the H5N1 avian influenza viruses suggests that while the two viruses appear to trigger a similar abnormal immune response in animal models, there are distinct differences.
HIV prevention research was responsible for the recent revelation that male circumcision can play an important role in protecting men from infection with the deadly virus.
Australian scientists believe they may be able to use a common cold-producingvirus to successfully treat breast cancer patients, in a way that is much lessdebilitating than chemotherapy.
Scientists and public health officials, wary that the H5N1 avian influenza virus could trigger an influenza pandemic, have looked to past pandemics, including the 1918 “Spanish Flu,” for insight into pandemic planning.
A U.S. advisory panel of Food and Drug Administration has supported the bird flu vaccine data from Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical company.
United Nations health agency officials are monitoring an area of Laos following the first human case of bird flu to be reported in the South-East Asian country, bringing to one dozen the total number of States with human infections.
The Ministry of Health in Lao People’s Democratic Republic has today reported the first human case of infection with the H5N1 avian influenza virus.
Vietnam confirmed a bird flu outbreak in chickens in a northern province only two weeks after it announced the disease had been contained, reported Reuters.