Helen Branswell
Why recent measles outbreaks may represent a ‘new normal’
Back near the start of this century, before the full damage of Andrew Wakefield’s debunked study linking measles vaccine and ...
Tetanus infection offers ‘gut-wrenching’ warning about dangers of not vaccinating children
A 6-year-old boy from Oregon who had never received a single vaccine got a cut on his forehead while playing ...
Amidst measles outbreaks, ‘massive’ new study proves again that vaccines don’t cause autism
A massive new study from Denmark found no association between being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella and developing autism. In science ...
How your history with the flu could shape your body’s response to vaccines
If you’ve ever gotten a flu shot — and then, later that season, gotten the flu — you were more ...
International treaty could threaten genetics research on ebola, other infectious diseases
There is something that is weighing heavily on the minds of some infectious diseases scientists these days. ... It’s an ...
New cousin to deadly Ebola virus discovered in bats in China
The notorious filovirus family — which includes such dangerous actors as the Ebola and Marburg viruses — seems to just keep ...
How 100-year-old tissue samples could rewrite the Spanish flu’s deadly history
Late one night Michael Worobey began poking around on the internet, looking for descendants of a World War I British ...
Promising flu drug could be hampered by rapid viral resistance
A new, fast-acting flu drug showed strong potential but also some surprising and even concerning results in two newly published ...
Fighting disease, not making money, focus of new Gates Foundation biotech institute
There’s a new biotech in town. And it doesn’t care about making money. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has ...
Why this winter’s flu is wreaking so much havoc
To put it flatly, H3N2 is the problem child of seasonal flu. It causes more deaths than the other influenza ...
Birth defects in Brazil linked to Zika, not insecticides or vaccines
In the fall and early winter of 2015, a startling number of infants in northeastern Brazil were born with abnormally small ...
Zika vaccine now seen as unlikely, as project dropped
Vaccine giant Sanofi Pasteur has quietly pulled the plug on its Zika vaccine project, a move that underscores how difficult ...
WHO arranging to send experimental Ebola vaccine to Democratic Republic of Congo
The World Health Organization and outside experts are making arrangements to send an experimental Ebola vaccine to the Democratic Republic ...
Superbug antibiotic backlash? Let’s review the science
Don’t call it a war on superbugs. That’s the latest advice from international public health experts who have been watching ...
Critics contest WHO’s classification of transgender identity as mental illness
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is, perhaps, a ...
CDC believes Hawaii dengue outbreak may foreshadow Zika on mainland US
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new report on ...
Advisory issued to pregnant women after Zika virus detected in Hawaii
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The United States has ...
Scientists working towards developing universal flu vaccine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Designing a flu vaccine ...
Too many directions in Ebola research could hinder search for cure
When it comes to treatments for Ebola, there has been a nearly four-decade-long drought. Nothing in the medical arsenal attacks ...
How the Ebola virus has spread
If you’ve been following the fast moving Ebola outbreak in West Africa, you may wonder why containing the deadly virus ...
DNA study shows herbal products not always what they appear to be
DNA barcoding revealed that sixty percent of herbal products tested contained DNA from plant species not included on the label ...
