Thousands of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines should be available in the coming months and could eventually be given to health care workers and other people at high risk of the deadly disease, according to the World Health Organization. No vaccine…
Animal to Human Transmission Responsible for 2014 Ebola Outbreak
Scientists used advanced genomic sequencing technology to identify a single point of infection from an animal reservoir to a human in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. This research has also revealed the dynamics of how the Ebola virus has…
Activista contra el SIDA lucha por la FDA
En esta foto del 22 de julio de 2014, el activista contra el SIDA Gregg Gonsalves camina por el exterior de la estación Grand Central Terminal durante una sesión fotográfica en Nueva York. A principios de la década de 1990, Gonsalves viajó a Washington para confrontar, provocar y desafiar a los funcionarios de la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos...
“Alter-the-Backbone” Approach Promising in Osteoporosis & Diabetes
By swapping replacement parts into the backbone of a synthetic hormone, UW-Madison graduate student Ross Cheloha and his mentor Sam Gellman, along with collaborators at Harvard Medical School, have built a version of a parathyroid hormone that resists degradation in laboratory…
Breast Cancer Patients Stay Fertile Through Drug
Doctors may have found a way to help young breast cancer patients avoid infertility caused by chemotherapy. Giving a drug to shut down the ovaries temporarily seems to boost the odds they will work after treatment ends, and it might even…
Accelerated Brain Aging Linked to Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes may be associated with brain degeneration, and some specific diabetic brain changes, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology. The study also found that, contrary to common clinical belief, diabetes may not be…