Jun 26 Are commercial honeybees making wild bees sick? By Berly McCoy Everyone wants to save the bees, but we may be saving them to death. Continue reading
Oct 06 Flu season is coming. If you live in a large city, it may stretch longer than elsewhere, study says By Helen Branswell, STAT The length of the flu season may vary depending on where you live, with large cities enduring longer periods of transmission and smaller cities experiencing shorter, but more explosive, spread, a new study suggests… Continue reading
May 26 Self-cloning Asian tick causing worry in New Jersey By Alvaro Toledo, The Conversation An invasive tick originally from East Asia that bites and transmits diseases is establishing a stable population in New Jersey. Continue reading
Aug 18 Watch Photographer documents effects of Ebola on daily life in Liberia By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch HIV rebound in young child is ‘another step’ in long process of AIDS research By PBS News Hour AIDS researchers announced a setback in the long search for a cure. Doctors believed that they had cured a baby girl by using aggressive and early treatment. But after years without requiring therapy, she tested positive for HIV during a… Continue watching
Jul 04 Watch Health workers race to halt Ebola in West Africa By PBS News Hour Health workers met in Ghana to coordinate on how to contain what has become the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak from spilling over new borders. Since February, the virus has been reported in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Nobels Honor Immune System Research Paving Way for New Vaccines, Treatments American Bruce Beutler and Luxembourg-born Jules Hoffmann shared this year's Nobel Prize in medicine with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, who died on Friday, for their discoveries related to the immune system. Jeffrey Brown discusses their work with Dr. Anthony Fauci of… Continue watching
Sep 11 Watch One-shot Solution Explored for H1N1 Vaccine Margaret Warner speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease about a new H1N1 flu vaccine. Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch Smallpox Vaccine Causes Rare Complications A Chicago boy contracted a life-threatening case of the vaccinia virus -- a virus similar to smallpox -- after his father, a soldier, received the smallpox vaccine. The NewsHour reports on doctors' and the military's efforts to prevent and treat… Continue watching