There is no hard evidence that circumcision protects gay men from HIV, research shows.

South Africa's fight against HIV/Aids is likely to receive an important boost, following the appointment of a new health minister, Barbara Hogan.

Seven universities will share $10.9 million in federal funds to study the ability of state and local public health systems to respond to emergencies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday.

A flu vaccine manufacturer's decision not to build a US facility has highlighted the perpetual mismatch between flu-shot supply and demand—and the reality that the mismatch may undermine plans for pandemic flu vaccines.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honours three Europeans who discovered viruses that cause deadly diseases, and whose findings have led to major medical advances.

A new estimate of how many Americans have the AIDS virus puts the number at about 1.1 million, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.

Health officials are mounting the boldest campaign against malaria in 50 years. Will it work this time?

Ukraine's Parliament recently approved a bill that would establish a national program to increase HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts in the country, Ukrainian News reports.

Infection with potentially deadly Clostridium difficile is often linked to antibiotic use, but new research suggests antibacterial drugs may be getting too much of the bad rap and that other factors may also be to blame.

A global AIDS vaccine conference this week will seek fresh strategies against the HIV virus, with experts weighing the value of basic laboratory research against large-scale human clinical trials after a string of disappointments.

GlaxoSmithKline Plc's head of biotech research is excited about a new generation of "slimline" antibody medicines that may be successors to current blockbusters such as Avastin and Rituxan.

Canadians should have known earlier about the listeria outbreak ? linked to a meat plant ? that has killed at least 16 people, according to the medical director of Ontario's public health laboratories

AS MORE people watch their home equity erode, put off retirement because their nest eggs are taking a dive, and bike or bus to work to save gas money, many are thanking their lucky stars that they still have a job to commute to.

Poor treatment may be fueling the rise of an especially hard to treat form of tuberculosis called extensively drug resistant or XDR TB, doctors reported on Sunday.

Health Canada has approved a vaccine that helps prevent painful shingles outbreaks in older people who had chickenpox earlier in life.

The spread of HIV/AIDS has continued in Canada as Ottawa refuses to fund preventative measures due to ideological reasons, says the head of a national legal advocacy group.

U.S. efforts to test nearly everyone for the AIDS virus have stalled and just 40 percent of adults in the country have ever been tested for the fatal and incurable virus, according to a government report on Thursday.

A range of risk behaviours are more common for men after migration, reported researchers at the International AIDS Conference on August 5th. Sex with a commercial sex worker, sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, sex in exchange for money and sex with a man were behaviours identified as...

Bad reactions to antibiotics, mostly allergic ones, send people to U.S. emergency rooms more than 140,000 times each year, government researchers reported on Wednesday.

The National Risk Register, prepared by Britain's Cabinet Office, depicts pandemic flu as the biggest threat in terms of potential impact on the country, well above such risks as terrorist attacks, coastal flooding, and major industrial accidents. It says a pandemic could infect as much as half of the British population...

The battle against AIDS is becoming a war of attrition. Which side is on top is not yet clear

B.C. researcher who helped pioneer the use of antiretrovirals becomes head of global AIDS group

The federal health minister remains opposed to safe injection sites, in contrast to the World Health Organization's supportive stance on the harm reduction approach to HIV. Tony Clement attended the launch of the WHO's how-to guide to fight HIV/AIDS at the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City on Tuesday. He...

While the world awaits findings from new AIDS prevention trials, millions of people are becoming infected because governments are overlooking studies showing that behavior modification works, AIDS experts said Tuesday. Among the behavior modifications the experts cited: promoting safer sex through delayed intercourse and the use of condoms, decreasing drug abuse,...

In 2006, the Star reporters who covered the International AIDS Conference in Toronto picked a series of hits and misses. That year, close to 40 million people worldwide had HIV/AIDS