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A Harvard physician has developed a vaccine that could prevent thousands of babies each year from acquiring Group B streptococcus, a potentially deadly infection.
"We know exactly what the vaccine should look like and how to make it," Channing Professor of Medicine Dennis Kasper told the Associated Press. "Now it's a matter of going through the testing...so it can save babies' lives."
In the rush of scientific optimism that followed the polio vaccine and the first moon walk, Richard Nixon declared war on America's second biggest killer: cancer. Twenty-five years and $35 billion later, the news from the cancer front is good and bad.
Each year it returns, stalking its victims through snowstorms and blizzards. And each year health officials race to stay ahead of the wily flu virus, which is constantly changing, by concocting new mixes of vaccines to head off novel strains. On the horizon are more sophisticated vaccines that incorporate a...
Often packed into the bodies of ticks, below, no bigger than the head of a pin are bacteria that cause flu-like symptoms in 100,000 Americans each year. The best-known illness is Lyme disease, which, left untreated, can lead to arthritis, paralysis of facial nerves and meningitis. Antibiotics...