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Awareness of breast, bowel and lung cancer to be increased in attempt to reduce 10,000 annual deaths caused by late cancer discovery The NHS is to urge people to report telltale signs of cancer to the ...

NEW YORK -- SIGA Technologies, Inc. , a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to fight bio-warfare pathogens, announced today that it will report fourth quarter and full-yea ...

Inovio Biomedical Corporation, a leader in DNA vaccine design, development and delivery, has unveiled its new CELLECTRA-SP series of hand-held, cordless electroporation devices at the DNA Vaccines 201 ...

NEW YORK -- SIGA Technologies, Inc. , a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to fight biowarfare pathogens, today announced that management will present at the following in ...

Geneva - Cases of tuberculosis (TB) could be halved by 2015 and malaria could be eliminated within a decade in many countries, projections released Monday by the Global Fund claimed. Advances were als ...

The United Nations says mother-to-child HIV transmission can be eliminated by 2015 if health programs receive increased investments as planned. Michel Sidibe, the head of UNAIDS, appealed to governmen ...

A group of independent scientists today released the results of their six-month inquiry into the Army's assessment of the risks posed by expansion of biocontainment labs at Fort Detrick in Frederick, ...

Dengue cases went up to 6,236 cases in the first two months of 2010, an 11 percent-increase over last year's figures (5,616) in the same period, the National Epidemiology Center (NEC) of the Departmen ...

KUALA LUMPUR - AN OFFICIAL says Malaysia is urging people to take precautions against dengue fever after a rise in deaths from the mosquito-borne virus. Health Ministry official Lim Chau Leng says 31 ...

A UK expert in pandemic flu thinks Jersey responded the right way to the swine flu outbreak.Professor Nick Phin from the Health Protection Agency has been in the island to talk to Public Health about ...

Researchers at the South West Liver Unit, based at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and supported by the Peninsula Medical School, are working to save more lives and improve the health of Hepatitis C suff ...

March 8 (Bloomberg) -- Chileans raised 30.1 billion pesos ($59.2 million) in a 25-hour telethon to help victims in their earthquake-rocked nation, and President Michelle Bachelet went to Concepcion an ...

Officials relieved, but still cautious The nearly year-old H1N1 influenza pandemic that disproportionately affected children and mobilized millions to line up for vaccination seems to have finally aba ...

Pfizer's Prevnar 7 vaccine, which protects against pneumonia and meningitis, has been shown to reduce the risk of recurrent pneumococcal infection in patients living with HIV in Malawi, according to a ...

The injuries suffered by Gov. Bill Ritter after he was hurled from his bicycle six broken ribs and a separated shoulder joint are painful enough he could spend four days in the hospital as doctors m ...

Pediatrics researchers have identified the first major gene location responsible for a severe, often painful type of food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). In this disease, which may caus ...

( NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ) Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells. This app ...

Dear Editor: In the bad old days, typhoid, cholera, and other water-borne diseases killed thousands, but after science taught us to site human waste disposal away from water supplies, and to treat dri ...

Ten months into what many will agree is one of the toughest cabinet portfolios, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi shares his vision for healthcare in South Africa. In his first wide-ranging intervie ...