For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even ...

Godfrey Dzhivhuho has dedicated his career to understanding HIV and other infectious diseases, inspired by the epidemic he witnessed growing up. Raised in Warrenton-Kimberly, South Africa, the oldest ...

Gene therapies for rare diseases are frequently developed then discarded by drug companies because they can’t afford to produce the treatment for more patients. Gene therapies for rare diseases are ...

Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV) is an incurable retrovirus that suppresses the immune system in cats. Diagnosis requires distinguishing between a progressive infection (active virus, poor prognosis) and ...

Health officials have declared an Ebola outbreak after recording 58 suspected cases and 20 deaths from the disease. Last week, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared the Ebola outbreak in ...

SAN ANTONIO – The 12th annual Head for the Cure 5K is returning to San Antonio on Sept. 27, continuing a powerful tradition here that began in 2014, in memory of KSAT’s late news director, Jim Boyle.

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pasteur Institute and the University of Lorraine, France, have uncovered ...

The bite of a black widow spider can initially feel like a sharp stabbing pain, or it can be deceptively subtle, barely ...

Getting an updated coronavirus vaccine can be particularly challenging this year. The Food and Drug Administration approved those shots for people who are 65 and older or have underlying conditions ...

Drugstores are ready to deliver updated COVID-19 vaccines this fall and insurers plan to pay for them, even though the shots no longer come recommended by an important government committee. On Friday, ...

In one of the busiest hospitals in Melbourne, a potentially fatal epidemic of antibiotic-resistant germs compelled physicians ...