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Landmark windpipe transplant

Doctors in Spain have carried out the world's first transplant of a windpipe with tissue grown...
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Health

FDA Approves Simponi for Rheumatoid Arthritis

FDA Approves Simponi for Rheumatoid Arthritis

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved rheumatoid arthritis drug golimumab marketed...
» read full story April 25th, 2009 - 13:32

New Campaign against Malaria Launched

A new campaign against malaria was announced Friday in Norway by international health agency and...
» read full story April 18th, 2009 - 14:32
Tuberculosis Scare at Three Chicago-Area Hospitals

Tuberculosis Scare at Three Chicago-Area Hospitals

Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to...
» read full story April 13th, 2009 - 14:22

WHO earmarks 15 billion dollars to curb drug-resistant TB by 2015

   Beijing  - Ministers from 27 nations have backed a 15-billion-dollar plan to...
» read full story April 03rd, 2009 - 14:23
HIV Treatment Should Be Started Earlier than Currently Recommended

HIV Treatment Should Be Started Earlier than Currently Recommended

HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend...
» read full story April 03rd, 2009 - 14:06

China launches partnership to fight drug-resistant TB

   Beijing  - China on Wednesday launched a partnership with the Gates...
» read full story April 01st, 2009 - 10:38
March 24 Is World TB Day

March 24 Is World TB Day

March 24 is World TB Day, a day that aims to remind people that the disease is still a major health...
» read full story March 24th, 2009 - 16:47
Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB

Combination of Two-Already Approved Drugs May Cure Resistant TB

Two FDA-approved drugs show promise in treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB),...
» read full story February 27th, 2009 - 14:01
Report: AIDS – The Number One Killer in China

Report: AIDS – The Number One Killer in China

AIDS has become China’s deadliest enemy with 6,897 people dying from the disease in the...
» read full story February 19th, 2009 - 14:38
Report: Bush Administration Was Successful in Fighting HIV/AIDS

Report: Bush Administration Was Successful in Fighting HIV/AIDS

Although the Bush administration is going to leave Barack Obama a nation, which is locked in two...
» read full story January 13th, 2009 - 14:17

George Bush’s Health Care Legacy

The Bush administration has failed too many times in providing a good health care system. Firstly,...
» read full story January 03rd, 2009 - 11:58
WHO: Cancer To Become World’s No. 1 Killer

WHO: Cancer To Become World’s No. 1 Killer

The increasing use of tobacco will turn cancer into the No. 1 killer worldwide by 2010, global...
» read full story December 09th, 2008 - 22:03
Indonesia’s Papua Province Considering Microchip Monitoring For HIV Patients

Indonesia’s Papua Province Considering Microchip Monitoring For HIV Patients

Lawmakers in Indonesia’s Papua province worked to pass a bill that would require HIV/AIDS patients...
» read full story November 25th, 2008 - 14:20
Promising Results in Adult Stem Cell Research : 1st Trachea Transplant Performed

Promising Results in Adult Stem Cell Research : 1st Trachea Transplant Performed

Doctors at four European universities have managed to perform the first trachea transplant...
» read full story November 20th, 2008 - 14:40

Pioneering Stem-Cell Surgery Performed

Through a cooperation of 4 European universities, physicians have performed the world’s first...
» read full story November 19th, 2008 - 18:03
Doctors Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs

Doctors Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs

An article in the Nov. 19 online issue of the journal The Lancet tells that story of a Colombian...
» read full story November 19th, 2008 - 14:30
Study Calls For Earlier AIDS Treatment

Study Calls For Earlier AIDS Treatment

HIV patients should begin antiretroviral treatments earlier than what current guidelines recommend,...
» read full story October 27th, 2008 - 18:40
The Gates Foundation Plans to Fund 104 Researchers around the World

The Gates Foundation Plans to Fund 104 Researchers around the World

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made public its intention to give 104 grants of $100...
» read full story October 23rd, 2008 - 14:00
New TB vaccine offers hope for AIDS patients, German researchers say

New TB vaccine offers hope for AIDS patients, German researchers say

Hamburg - An early tuberculosis vaccine dating back to the 1920s has been vastly improved thanks to...
» read full story October 06th, 2008 - 07:37

WHO IDs Diseases, Warming as Asia-Pacific Health Challenges

Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) is bracing for major health challenges in Asia and the...
» read full story September 25th, 2008 - 09:38

4 Doctors Receive Genius Grants

Among the 25 recipients of $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants”, there were four...
» read full story September 23rd, 2008 - 22:46
CDC Urges HIV Testing among Patients Unaware of Their HIV Status

CDC Urges HIV Testing among Patients Unaware of Their HIV Status

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released this week found that only 40% of people...
» read full story August 11th, 2008 - 16:33
Tuberculosis, a Threat for People Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS

Tuberculosis, a Threat for People Diagnosed with HIV/AIDS

As the 17th International AIDS Conference comes to an end in Mexico City, with calls for more...
» read full story August 09th, 2008 - 13:44
Billionaires Start Antismoking Effort To Benefit The World

Billionaires Start Antismoking Effort To Benefit The World

Smoking kills over 5.4 million people each year, more than tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS...
» read full story July 27th, 2008 - 12:30
CDC: High TB Rates among US Immigrants Call for Immediate Measures

CDC: High TB Rates among US Immigrants Call for Immediate Measures

A study published on the July 22 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association called...
» read full story July 23rd, 2008 - 12:25
WHO: New Molecular Test to Detect TB Faster Gives Sufferers Hope

WHO: New Molecular Test to Detect TB Faster Gives Sufferers Hope

The World Health Organization unveiled on Monday a new diagnostic test that will give doctors the...
» read full story July 01st, 2008 - 12:07

Enbrel Approved by FDA Panel for Kids with Psoriasis

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said Wednesday that wider use of Amgen Inc’s...
» read full story June 20th, 2008 - 18:08
FDA Panel Recommends Amgen’s Enbrel For Kids

FDA Panel Recommends Amgen’s Enbrel For Kids

A FDA panel recommended that the psoriasis drug Enbrel should be approved for the treatment of the...
» read full story June 19th, 2008 - 00:08
Amgen and Wyeth’s Enbrel to Carry ‘Black Box’ Warning on TB Risk

Amgen and Wyeth’s Enbrel to Carry ‘Black Box’ Warning on TB Risk

Amgen Inc and Wyeth’s Enbrel arthritis and psoriasis drug will carry a new “black box” warning...
» read full story May 02nd, 2008 - 11:59

Update: Central High Student Tests Positive for Tuberculosis

Douglas County Health Department officials said Monday the tuberculosis case reported at Central ...
» read full story April 10th, 2008 - 14:03
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U.S.

Elephants in Zoos Live Less

Elephants in Zoos Live Less

Recent research reported that both Asian and African elephants that live in captivity have a...
» read full story December 12th, 2008 - 16:04
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Movies

Brad Pitt Opposes Gay Marriage Ban, Donates Generously

Brad Pitt Opposes Gay Marriage Ban, Donates Generously

Donations from the Jolie-Pitts are pouring this week: first, $2 million to help fight HIV/AIDS and...
» read full story September 18th, 2008 - 16:36
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Science

Ancient “British” Brain Found

British archaeologists have unveiled an ancient skull with a brain inside they consider to be the...
» read full story December 13th, 2008 - 00:23
Europeans Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs

Europeans Report First Windpipe Transplant Without Anti-Rejection Drugs

An article in the Nov. 19 online issue of the journal The Lancet tells that story of a Colombian...
» read full story November 20th, 2008 - 07:50
First Stem Cells Trachea Transplant

First Stem Cells Trachea Transplant

An article in the British medical journal The Lancet recently reported that physicians from four...
» read full story November 19th, 2008 - 19:09
New Discovery Reveals Tuberculosis Is 500,000-Years-Old

New Discovery Reveals Tuberculosis Is 500,000-Years-Old

A new discovery made by the scientists from The University of Texas at Austin revealed that...
» read full story December 08th, 2007 - 00:14
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Specials

Bill Gates Launches Project to Help China Fight TB

Bill Gates Launches Project to Help China Fight TB

Computer industry billionaire Bill Gates announced his intention to help the Chinese government...
» read full story April 01st, 2009 - 15:52
One in Four Tuberculosis Deaths Involves a Person Infected with HIV

One in Four Tuberculosis Deaths Involves a Person Infected with HIV

Tuberculosis killed more people with HIV than ever in 2007, according to a new report released by...
» read full story March 25th, 2009 - 16:59
Edgar Allan Poe at the 200th Commemoration

Edgar Allan Poe at the 200th Commemoration

  On January 19, 1809, poet Edgar Allan Poe was born, a man who would leave an undeniable...
» read full story January 19th, 2009 - 18:26

Bruni-Sarkozy to be ambassador in the fight against AIDS

Paris - France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is to be named later Monday a special ambassador...
» read full story December 01st, 2008 - 14:43
Stem Cell Transplant Method Is A Real Success

Stem Cell Transplant Method Is A Real Success

Stem cells have been always been regarded as stepping on the line of ethics, but those were the...
» read full story November 19th, 2008 - 21:40

Patient Receives New Windpipe Made From Owen Stem Cells

Some European doctors have performed the first trachea transplant using a woman’s own stem cells...
» read full story November 19th, 2008 - 19:03
Tuberculosis Risk Higher in Immigrants, Study Says

Tuberculosis Risk Higher in Immigrants, Study Says

The July 22 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study according to...
» read full story July 23rd, 2008 - 21:53
Amy Winehouse in Early Stages of Emphysema

Amy Winehouse in Early Stages of Emphysema

British singer Amy Winehouse has been suffering from an unclear medical condition that her father...
» read full story June 23rd, 2008 - 13:13
UN: More Action Is Needed to Fight HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide

UN: More Action Is Needed to Fight HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide

Despite global efforts to fight AIDS, the number of people who get infected is far outpacing the...
» read full story June 10th, 2008 - 14:06
Giant Networks ABC, CBS and NBC Join Hands in Cancer Initiative

Giant Networks ABC, CBS and NBC Join Hands in Cancer Initiative

It is always great news when you hear that the fight against cancer brings more people together,...
» read full story May 28th, 2008 - 16:36
Bono and Damien Hirst Rock Sotheby's for Africa

Bono and Damien Hirst Rock Sotheby's for Africa

Rocker-activist Bono and British artist Damien Hirst held a Valentine’s Day auction at...
» read full story February 15th, 2008 - 13:03
Sanofi-Aventis Teams up with Danish SSI to Develop New TB Vaccine

Sanofi-Aventis Teams up with Danish SSI to Develop New TB Vaccine

French drugs group Sanofi-Aventis announced on Thursday its intention to team up with Danish...
» read full story February 14th, 2008 - 09:24
Brilliant Girls Dominate Siemens Tech Competition

Brilliant Girls Dominate Siemens Tech Competition

For the first time in Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology’s nine-year history, the...
» read full story December 04th, 2007 - 11:52
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People

Poet Edgar Allan Poe at 200

Poet Edgar Allan Poe at 200

Edgar Allan Poe wrote poetry, short-stories, and literary critics while making his way through the...
» read full story January 19th, 2009 - 15:13
Literary Icon Edgar Allan Poe, Subject of Heated Debate

Literary Icon Edgar Allan Poe, Subject of Heated Debate

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most prominent writers of the American Romantic Movement. He is...
» read full story January 18th, 2009 - 17:09
Angelina Jolie on Her First Humanitarian Trip to Afghanistan

Angelina Jolie on Her First Humanitarian Trip to Afghanistan

United Nations goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie made her first humanitarian trip to war-torn...
» read full story October 30th, 2008 - 17:10
Brad and Angelina Are Trying to Save the World

Brad and Angelina Are Trying to Save the World

And the first step was already taken years ago, when Maddox, 7, was adopted from Cambodia, making...
» read full story September 16th, 2008 - 15:12
Katie Couric Doubtful About Her Move To CBS

Katie Couric Doubtful About Her Move To CBS

CBS news anchor Katie Couric admitted in a recent interview that her move from NBC’s morning show...
» read full story July 10th, 2007 - 16:58
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World

Study Concludes That Elephants In Zoos Live Less

Study Concludes That Elephants In Zoos Live Less

Recent research reported that both Asian and African elephants that live in captivity have a...
» read full story December 13th, 2008 - 13:04
United Nations Plan to Eliminate Malaria by 2015

United Nations Plan to Eliminate Malaria by 2015

United Nations officials stated Thursday that a plan backed by approximately $3 billion in...
» read full story September 26th, 2008 - 21:25
Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

Agreement to Triple AIDS Funding For PEPFAR

The Bush administration recorded one of the most successful achievements yesterday when a major...
» read full story February 28th, 2008 - 16:31
Global Fund to Receive 10 Billion Dollars

Global Fund to Receive 10 Billion Dollars

Donors pledged to give nearly 10 billion dollars to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and...
» read full story September 27th, 2007 - 20:22
Malaria Outbreaks In Indoneasia's Borneo, West Timor

Malaria Outbreaks In Indoneasia's Borneo, West Timor

Recent malaria outbreaks in two Indonesian provinces have claimed the lives of at least 24 people...
» read full story May 10th, 2007 - 12:24
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