Virology News

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia primarily affects children and is often incurable. New research points to a potential targeted therapy.

The new method of using anthrax toxin to fight bladder cancer works within mintues to target cancer cells, research in animals shows.

500 The Cochrane Library appears to be unavailable to you at the moment. This could be due to maintenance activity or an unexpected issue. Please contact Customer Support for assistance.

A newly identified set of three antibodies could lead to better treatments and vaccines against influenza, according to a paper published this week in Science.Researchers supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, isolated...

Researchers developed a new vaccine for tuberculosis that could prevent the disease from spreading among adults.

Rabies is a major public health problem.According to WHO, it claims over 59,000 lives each year, mostly in Asia and Africa.--By Sunderarajan Padmanabhan...

A new way to combine sewage sludge and restaurant grease is the most efficient way to make methane yet, say researchers.

Numerous vaccines, from flu shots to those those that help thwart chickenpox and measles, are widely used to guard against contagion, but researchers in France are proposing a breakthrough role for rotavirus vaccines: deploying ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental Biologics License Application for Fluzone® High-Dose Quadrivalent (Influenza Vaccine) for use in adults 65 years of age and older.

A new theory about Neanderthal extinction points to disease transmission as the culprit—both for their end, and for why it came about so slowly.

Scientists have tried to figure out why neurons die in patients with Parkinson's disease, but new research indicates they're not even really dead.

Researchers are closer than ever to detecting a signal from a time when the first stars in the universe emerged from the "cosmic dark ages."...

BY PHYLLIS MBANJE IN HYDERABAD, INDIA

RESEARCHERS at the tuberculosis (TB) conference in India ha...

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is a partner in a consortium of international organisations that initiated this clinical study, and will manage its implementation in collaboration with DRC’s Ministry of Health and the Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale.

A new way to test paralytic neurotoxins for potential therapeutic value doesn't involve euthanizing animal test subjects, researchers say.

Following is a list of all the health and age factors that are known to increase a person’s risk of getting serious complications from the flu: Asthma Neurologic and neurodevelopment conditions Blood disorders (such as sickle cell disease) Chronic lung disease (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD] and cystic fibrosis) Endocrine disorders (such as diabetes mellitus) Heart disease (such as congenital heart disease, congestive heart failure and coronary artery disease) Kidney disorders Liver disorders Metabolic disorders (such as inherited metabolic disorders and mitochondrial disorders) People who are obese with a body mass index [BMI] of 40 or higher People younger than 19 years of age on long-term aspirin- or salicylate-containing medications. People with a weakened immune system due to disease (such as people with HIV or AIDS, or some cancers such as leukemia) or medications (such as those receiving chemotherapy or radiation treatment for cancer, or persons with chronic conditions requiring chronic corticosteroids or other drugs that suppress the immune system) Other people at high risk from the flu: Adults 65 years and older Children younger than 2 years old1 Pregnant women and women up to 2 weeks after the end of pregnancy American Indians and Alaska Natives People who live in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities 1 Although all children younger than 5 years old are considered at high risk for serious flu complications, the highest risk is for those younger than 2 years old, with the highest hospitalization and death rates among infants younger than 6 months old.

An immunologist and vaccine specialist at Auckland University is furious New Zealand has "exported" measles to Samoa.

A protein called IL-36g could keep the herpes virus from spreading to the nervous system in women, researchers have discovered.

By G9ija The Ebola vaccination campaign in Congo is neither insufficient nor does it suffer from shipping delays, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday. The explanation came after criticism from medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Jezero crater, the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 rover, appears to harbor a mineral that could preserve signs of ancient life, researchers say.