In the rare cases when the H1N1 virus kills, scientists have found, it penetrates deep into the lungs, creating widespread damage -- a pattern similar to what killed millions during previous flu pandemics in 1918 and 1957.
The first data from H1N1 vaccine trials in children reveal some good news, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said Monday.
A single low dose of H1N1 vaccine may be enough to protect adults from the flu virus that has been spreading around the world, new data shows.
A single, low dose of H1N1 vaccine may be enough to protect adults from the flu virus.
In a race to beat the flu season, medical institutes across the United States will begin human trials for a new H1N1 flu vaccine starting in early August, the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday.
For the past few decades when talking about malaria, public health officials and malaria experts have avoided the word "eradication."
Antibodies taken from humans could provide protection from lethal strains of influenza, including the bird flu and the 1918 Spanish flu strain, according to research published this week.
Two teams of scientists say they have found a key area of the H5N1 bird flu virus which seems to be vital to its ability to copy itself, and hope the discovery could lead to new drugs to fight the infection.
The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests
A large government trial of the most promising HIV vaccine candidate to date has been canceled. Does that leave any hope for prevention?
Plans for a large-scale trial of a potential AIDS vaccine are being dropped in favor of a smaller, more focused study, the National Institutes of Health said Thursday
Swiss researchers have suggested that some people with HIV can safely have unprotected sex. Why AIDS experts say that's an irresponsible, high-risk statement
New HIV infections still dramatically outpace efforts in poor nations to bring treatment to patients, health officials said
Dr. Anthony Fauci got goose bumps when he began connecting the dots in the early 1980s of gay men suffering from an unknown disorder in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, and New York.
Elderly people, whose immune responses typically weaken with age, can be safely protected against common influenza with doses of vaccine that are up to four times stronger than usual, researchers said Monday.
Little Madison Sukenik crawls around her Fort Lauderdale home, grabbing everything in sight, putting much of it in her mouth.
Scientists have developed an effective vaccine for humans against avian flu, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has said.
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The world is coming close to a deadly pandemic, a top health expert has said at the opening of a bird flu conference in Vietnam.
Although researchers are busily working on a cure for the common cold, you won't find it at the drugstore anytime soon.
Influenza activity appears to be on the downturn in the United States, even as federal officials report more than 90 children have died of the flu this season.
THREE YEARS AGO Wayne Koff, director of vaccine research in the AIDS division of NIAID, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was filled with optimism. Recently completed tests...
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