According to a recent announcement, Enanta Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development of small molecule drugs to treat viral infections as well as liver diseases, has named Dr. Nathalie Adda as the company’s new chief medical officer and senior vice president. Adda will now be responsible for the...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently confirmed that Cuba is the first country ever to successfully eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child. “Eliminating transmission of a virus is one of the greatest public health achievements possible,” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said. “This is a major victory...

Gov. Jerry Brown of California recently signed Senate Bill 277 into law, in order to remove the state’s personal belief exemption of vaccines. The bill is meant to protect school students whose parents may not allow their children to receive vaccines for vaccine-preventable conditions. Traditionally, California has allowed parents to refuse...

Researchers recently warned that the mosquito species carrying chikungunya and dengue fever has spreading to new regions, taking the diseases with them. The latest study, conducted by researchers at the University of Oxford, England, shows that the tiger mosquito, which can carry both dengue fever and chikungunya, has now spread to new regions...

A team of researchers from the University of Sussex, based in the U.K., recently discovered a crucial process in tuberculosis (TB) bacterium that may serve to create novel antibiotics in order to treat the illness. The researchers in Sussex collaborated with New York’s Rockefeller University to learn that a crucial process within Mtb cells....

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently opened a National Ebola Training and Education Center to guarantee that the healthcare facilities and providers in the U.S. are ready to safely recognize, quarantine, treat and transport people who contract Ebola and similar emerging threats. “The National Ebola Training and Education...