Apr 8 : Researchers at the University of Cambridge have found that there is a link between coronary heart disease and levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6), a protein triggered by inflammation that attracts immune system cells to an injury site.

April 1 : In what happens to be the first study in a living being to show that a group of antioxidants called flavonoids boost the immune system, ecologists have shown that fruit-eating

March 31 : Researchers in the US and Canada have made a breakthrough in the fight against Ebola haemorrhagic fever, one of the world’s deadliest diseases caused by the Ebola virus, by successfully testing several Ebola vaccines in primates.

Mar 27 : Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Tokyo have found that manipulating a previously identified protein may be the key to developing an effective H5N1 influenza A virus vaccine.

Nov 23 : A study has found that two doses of a rotavirus vaccine co-administered with childhood vaccines provides high protection against rotavirus gastroenteritis episodes of any

Nov 22 : Authors at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found a new signalling molecule that might one day allow clinicians to treat diseases by regulating the immune

Nov 18 : Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the cowpox virus, a much milder cousin of the deadly smallpox virus, can keep infected

Nov 17 : A new vaccine, Menveo, has shown promise in clinical trials, which might help protect infants against four types of meningitis.

Nov 16 : A new vaccine being developed to combat the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may in fact prove harmful and should not be used on humans, a new US study has

November 13 : Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) develops drug resistance by producing deadly proteins