Scientists have discovered how heart disease patients with dangerously blocked arteries are able to grow new blood vessels to by-pass the blockage, and keep oxygen-rich blood flowing through their…
By Jessica Berman The World Health Organization says more than 200 million people – mostly in sub-Saharan Africa – were infected with malaria in 2010. The mosquito-borne parasitic illness annually…
People who suffer heart attacks are at increased risk of having a second and potentially fatal occurrence because of the damage the heart attack does to cardiac muscle tissue. Now…
Researchers say they have gained a key insight into how zinc helps the immune system fight infection. A study shows that zinc stops the immune system from spiralling out of…
Researchers say they have discovered how the malaria parasite gains a foothold inside the human body, causing the life-threatening illness. The finding could lead to a new treatment for malaria…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has given accelerated approval to a controversial new drug for use by patients suffering from forms of tuberculosis that have proven…
Each year, an estimated 500,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa develop the most serious form of malaria, so-called cerebral malaria. Experts say many of those who do not die from this…
Mass killings in the U.S., like Friday’s schoolhouse slaughter, have become a troubling and recurring fact of life in America. In the latest carnage, authorities say a gunman killed at…
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