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…
Novartis Antimalarial Clears Key WHO Review to Get the Combo Drug to Babies
The first antimalarial developed specifically for babies is a step closer to reaching parts of the world where…
Brushing your teeth in hospital could prevent catching a bad infection
The benefits of brushing in hospital have been overlooked Drazen Zigic/Getty Images Brushing your teeth while being treated…
Hospital-acquired pneumonia reduced by daily toothbrushing
The benefits of brushing in hospital have been overlooked Drazen Zigic/Getty Images Brushing your teeth while being treated…
New Blood Test Detects Active and Infectious Tuberculosis
Researchers in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine developed a new tuberculosis (TB) blood test…