Public Health > Nova Content

Here’s the top medical news of this week! Promising new HIV treatments give hope for eventual cure   The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)... Read More »

Here’s your weekly roundup of hot medical news! Mending a broken heart with stem cells and microRNAs   Just like a deep wound causes a scar to... Read More »

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have created a crowd-sourced online... Read More »

At the turn of the century, the Institute of Medicine released a report estimating that up to 100,000 patients a year die of medical errors in the United States... Read More »

A controversial study of the H5N1 bird flu virus has been published today in the journal Nature. The study, and similar one that will be published in Science, sparked ... Read More »

A new study has proven the long-term success of treating HIV patients with genetically modified T cells. Patients who received infusions of their own T cells, which... Read More »

An international research team led by University of California, Davis has found that the World Health Organization's recommendation to flash-heat... Read More »

Researchers from University of California, Davis demonstrated the safety and efficacy of transplanting anti-HIV stem cells into mouse models in a new study. The... Read More »

The Lancet recently published new results from the Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals, and Nutrition (BAN) trial conducted between 2004 and 2010 in Malawi. The current... Read More »

Here's your weekly roundup of hot medical news... Kidney transplant breakthroughs   For the first time, a kidney that had been donated to... Read More »

For years, doctors, public health professionals, and policymakers have been trying to deter people from unhealthy lifestyles choices, such as smoking and poor eating... Read More »

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh found antibodies that could treat malaria by targeting a key protein that exists in severe or life-threatening cases of... Read More »

Stanford University researchers have published a study on the cost effectiveness of a once-daily drug in reducing the risk of HIV infection through a prevention... Read More »

Researchers at Wistar Institute and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with global collaborators, introduce a new "prediction-based classification"... Read More »

Researchers from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a joint research venture by the US Army and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious... Read More »

Researchers, led by Dr. Stephan Schwander, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health, has determined a possible link between... Read More »

Resistant malaria spreads as research funding challenges continue Resistant malaria strains have recently been reported in Cambodia, Thailand and parts of... Read More »

Evidence-based treatment for medical conditions is the goal of any health-care oriented operation, or at least it should be. Over the years, there has been a lot of... Read More »

A research team from UCLA has demonstrated that stem cells that were genetically engineered into HIV-fighting cells can attack HIV cells in living organisms... Read More »

More than 650,000 people die of malaria every year, mostly in developing countries. Thanks to measures prevent mosquito bites and the development of new drugs... Read More »