Topic: Contagious And Infectious Diseases

The youth jab

Can it be possible to vaccinate your skin against the ageing process in the same way that you can vaccinate a child against measles? French beauty...

Aid And Fairer Trade Crucial To African Poverty

Africans need both foreign aid and fairer trading terms with other regions to achieve the poverty reduction and social development targets known as ...

Abandoning can be extreme mothering

A muted squawk typical of life at 4 hours old catches Constable Ngoma's attention. He follows the sound and finds a tiny baby shivering in the dirt...

Cairns forum to present PNG AIDS research

Research into issues affecting Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Pacific Island Nations will be presented at a forum in Cairns in far north Queensland...
Aid agencies are reporting a ten fold increase in deaths from cholera and dehydration in Pakistan.. . In Multan, victims of the floods are dying in...

Dengue-hit Delhi faces platelet crisis

The rising cases of dengue have created another crisis in the city — a shortage of platelets in most hospitals. Such was the rush of suspected...
Questionable drug patents that put lives at risk are finally starting to get more scrutiny. The Public Patent Foundation (better known as PUBPAT)...
The first clinical trials on a new investigational drug being developed to treat infections caused by hepatitis C virus have been successfully...
In what is being described as the first judgment of its kind in the UK, a family was awarded nearly $140,000 after a medical assessment panel...
In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 "bird flu" virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of...