What to Expect of Ebola Emergency Responses Amid Regional Spread
The success of Nigeria and Kenya in containing the recent spread of the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola…
MAHA, measles, and medicine’s habit of overlooking women
On Sept. 23, I sat in a small glass reading room at Yale’s medical library, turning the rag-paper…
Ebola outbreak: Death toll in Congo passes 4,000
BUNIA, Congo — Congo’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to…
Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal
John Goldman had not seen a case of measles in 30 years. But since April, the infectious disease…
Alveo, UTMB Develop Point-of-Care Lassa Fever Test for West Africa
Alveo Technologies and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) have entered a partnership to develop point-of-care diagnostics…
He cracked malaria’s genome in Mali. Now he’s advising the UN
Vitals Hometown: Koro, Mali Current position: Professor of parasitology and mycology and head of the Parasites and…
Scientists discover cancer that spreads between catfish
A rare cancer that spreads between fish like an infectious disease has been discovered in catfish in Vermont,…
Climate crisis threatens Asia’s fight to eliminate tuberculosis
JAKARTA: Health experts have called for faster tuberculosis prevention and response efforts, warning that the climate crisis could…
Bruker Introduces High-Throughput Sample-to-Answer Molecular Diagnostics System
Bruker Corporation’s Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics division has launched in Europe the MyGenius PRO, a fully automated, sample-to-answer…
Deadly parasitic tapeworm detected in West Coast wildlife for first time
Ebola outbreak in Africa grows Dr. Marc Siegel discusses growing concerns over an Ebola outbreak in Africa, including…
EU allocates €15 million in humanitarian assistance in response to Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
The European Commission is allocating an extra €15 million* in humanitarian assistance to support the response to the Ebola…
Ebola taught me whose suffering the world sees
Amid another Ebola outbreak, hundreds of Africans are sick, displaced, fearful, or dead. Health care workers across Central…