No one studying polio knew more than Albert Sabin, the Polish-American scientist whose vaccine against the crippling disease has been used worldwide since 1959. Sabin's oral vaccine provides lifelong… [+5893 chars]
The International AIDS Society will re-evaluate how it organizes international conferences as a result of visa denials by the Canadian government, the organization's president said Friday in Montreal… [+3785 chars]
The World Health Organization may have declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, but experts say the general population doesn’t have to worry about getting vaccinated amid global sup… [+7368 chars]
University of Toronto researchers have designed a new way to grow cells in a lab that enables them to better emulate cancerous tumours. The platform based on a type of material known as a hydrogel, … [+4727 chars]
A Copenhagen company worked for nearly two decades to develop a vaccine and only six governments bought it. Within the last few weeks, orders have come in from dozens of countries around the globe an… [+178 chars]
Engineers at MIT in the US have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that can easily monitor patients for up to two days. The stamp-sized patch uses a rigid array of piezoelectric transducers on a … [+4441 chars]
While research suggests it is less likely for a child to get long Covid, there are calls for symptoms to be recognised and for funding into research. Photo: After a family wedding in March this ye… [+3601 chars]
Article content Public Health Sudbury and Districts reported four new COVID-related deaths on Friday and 82 new infections since Wednesday. Article content All four victims were from Greater Sudbu… [+1989 chars]
Article content Monkeypox vaccines will now be made available to anyone in the province, B.C.s Ministry of Health announced Friday. Article content The ministry said that although the number of ca… [+1802 chars]
Melioidosis, a rare and potentially deadly disease caused by a strain of bacteria that has been found in US soil and water for the first time, is unlikely to spread from person to person, according t… [+2310 chars]
Even at six or seven years old, growing up in Germany, he already knew he wanted to be a surgeon, just like his father’s best friend. But it wasn’t until his 30s, based at a hospital burn unit on th… [+3254 chars]
A Copenhagen company worked for nearly two decades to develop a vaccine and only six governments bought it. Within the last few weeks, orders have come in from dozens of countries around the globe an… [+178 chars]
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