disease
Ebola: New vaccine trial begins
Posted in Medicine on 6th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Scientists at Oxford University have begun immunising healthy volunteers with a new Ebola vaccine.
US Cancer Death Rates Have Fallen Significantly
Posted in Medicine on 1st Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
There was a 22 percent decline in the average rate of all cancer deaths from 1991 (the year it peaked) to 2011, according to the American Cancer Society.
Rapamycin used to boost immune response in humans
Posted in Medicine on 28th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller
A rapamycin-like drug could reverse the natural decline that elderly people experience in their ability to fight off infections.
Promising results for Ebola Vaccine
Posted in Science on 25th Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller
The study is the first to report an Ebola vaccine candidate to be both safe and effective in an African population.
New NHS centres to bring in era of DNA-medicine
Posted in Medicine on 22nd Dec, 2014
by Alex Muller
The NHS is setting up 11 centres to unlock the secrets of DNA and develop tests and drugs to target cancer and genetic disease. DNA project 'to make UK the world leader'