IDWeek 2024 was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 16–19 October. Phoebe Hall ...

A live virus vaccine contains a live, weakened (attenuated) virus that helps your body develop an immune response without you developing symptoms of the disease it is intended to prevent. Examples ...

the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Capital Medical University in Beijing tested the new treatment in eight patients. This virus enhances the positive signals that encourage the immune system to ...

As a virologist at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, she knew that researchers around the world were testing virus-based cancer ... the “unconventional” treatment has left her in remission ...

Your pediatrician will be able to diagnose the ear infection by looking in your child’s ear. Many ear infections resolve on their own. When they don’t, treatment usually includes antibiotics and ...

Beata Halassy, an expert infectious disease researcher, treated her own stage 3 breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses. Following this treatment, 50-year-old Beata Halassy has ...

In a bid to avoid more gruelling chemotherapy, Dr Halassy decided to take matters into her own hands with an experimental immunotherapy treatment. Oncolytic virus therapy, or OVT, is an emerging ...

Thanks to its ability to quickly diagnose an infection, mNGS helps guide management decisions and treatment for patients with meningitis and encephalitis, potentially reducing healthcare costs ...

As the days get cooler and darker, our immune systems seem to take a battering, leaving them more susceptible for nasty seasonally illnesses such as a chest infection. But is there anything we can ...

You still have the virus. And your HIV levels will grow again if you stop treatment. But properly followed, ART can control HIV levels so well that doctors can’t find HIV with typical lab tests.

It's a treatment long used to combat compression sickness in divers, and wounds that will not heal. But at the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, in Be'er Ya'akov, Israel ...

As the toxic drug crisis continues to claim thousands of lives each year — fuelling perceptions that existing measures are failing — the notion of involuntary treatment is gaining political ...