Samoan authorities warned Friday that anti-vaccine propaganda would not be tolerated, after a social media campaigner was arrested for opposing a mass immunization drive aimed at containing the Pacific nation’s deadly measles epidemic.
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A company that claims to have the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer’s disease made its case to scientists Thursday but left them sharply divided over whether there’s enough evidence of effectiveness for the medicine to warrant federal approval.
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A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson’s patients did the same for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in a study that was stopped early because the benefit seemed clear.
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Poland’s agriculture minister says 21 wild boars have died as a result of an outbreak of African swine fever close to the German border.
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Samoa’s government said Monday that another five children had died within the past day from a measles outbreak, bringing the death toll from the epidemic to more than 50 as authorities race to vaccinate the entire population.
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Four African countries have reported new cases of polio linked to the oral vaccine, as global health numbers show there are now more children being paralyzed by viruses originating in vaccines than in the wild.
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Authorities said Monday that a measles epidemic sweeping through Samoa continues to worsen with the death toll rising to 25, all but one of them young children.
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They still bite, but new research shows lab-grown mosquitoes are fighting dangerous dengue fever that they normally would spread.
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Coral reefs in the western Pacific Ocean region of Micronesia are under threat from the emergence of what scientists are calling grey-patch disease, according to a study published Thursday.
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Some soups may be good for more than just the soul. A new study suggests that certain homemade broths — made from chicken, beef or even just vegetables — might have properties that can help fight malaria.
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Mailing free home HIV tests to high-risk men offers a potentially better strategy for detecting infections than usual care, a government study found.
Read moreThe Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday introduced a second vaccine to fight a 15-month-old epidemic of Ebola in the east of the country, Doctors Without Borders said.
Read moreAs viruses travel through melting Arctic ice due to climate change, sea mammals like harbor seals will be more susceptible to certain pathogens that could kill them as they travel between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific oceans, according to a new study published on Thursday.
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A U.S. pharmaceutical firm has identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus, and said the finding showed that cutting edge genome sequencing is helping researchers stay ahead of mutations.
Read moreThe owner of the drug company convicted in a 2012 nationwide meningitis outbreak pushed the First Circuit for a reversal Tuesday by accusing the prosecution of having prejudiced the jury with “gruesome, grisly and emotional” testimony about victim suffering.
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U.S. health officials estimate that millions of cases of heart disease and other illnesses are linked to abuse and other physical and psychological harm suffered early in life.
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A measles infection can destroy the memory of a body’s immune system, according to a new study released Thursday in Science Immunology.
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Around a quarter of the world’s pigs are expected to die from African swine fever as authorities grapple with a complex disease spreading rapidly in the globalization era, the World Organization for Animal Health’s president said Thursday.
Read moreA California appeals court affirmed a $13 million wrongful death judgment against Hillshire Brands, from the estate of a man who died of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure at 61; he was exposed to it as a child in a company town, but the disease has a long latency period.
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Scientists said Tuesday they are closing in on a new game-changing vaccine for tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest infectious disease that claimed some 1.5 million lives last year.
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