The GAVI international immunisations group has agreed to fund the roll-out of vaccines against cervical cancer in developing countries, offering protection against a disease that kills one w... Read more
Some people enjoy the scent of a wood fire. Still smoke is full of particulate matter and exotic trace chemicals. Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers spotl... Read more
Hopes for a vaccine that would be effective against many different types of the deadliest malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, have been raised by research published today. Researchers h... Read more
Building Better HIV Antibodies: Biologists Create Neutralizing Antibody That Shows Increased Potency
Using highly potent antibodies isolated from HIV-positive people, researchers have recently begun to identify ways to broadly neutralize the many possible subtypes of HIV. Now, a team led by... Read more
Banging you head against the wall is not to be recommended because it sort of hurts. Yet the woodpecker does it every day and seems content and happy. Woodpeckers are able to peck at a tree... Read more
Climate change and population growth in the United States will make having enough fresh water more challenging in the coming years, an expert on water shortages said on Wednesday. “In... Read more
Many people still do not accept the harm that alcohol can do to their bodies, despite government warnings, the public health minister has said. Anne Milton told MPs that was in contrast to t... Read more
There is no link between the long-term use of a mobile phone and getting brain cancer, research suggests. In what has been described as the largest study on the subject, researchers found th... Read more
Babies born to mothers who contracted the swine flu virus faced a much greater risk of being stillborn, according to a new study. Baby deaths among women infected with the 2009 strain of the... Read more