Mutant Flu Virus Is Found That Resists Popular Drug
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The World Health Organization said that a small but significant percentage of the main influenza virus causing illness this winter is resistant to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu.
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German scientists have found a new way to prevent the HIV virus from replicating, offering hope in the face of the virus's increasing resistance to existing drugs.
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Scientists get their first look at a virus attaching to DNA. Physical proof of this surprising interaction could lead to drugs that can stop some infections. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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The parasite that causes river blindness, a crippling disease endemic in Africa, may be developing resistance to the one drug used to treat it, according to research published Friday in The Lancet.
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ViroPharma completes preliminary enrollment in a study of one of its drug candidates.
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The parasite that causes river blindness appears to be developing resistance to the only drug widely available to treat it, researchers said on Thursday.
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Scientists who synthesized two genes  from the virus that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic  said Thursday they have a found new clues about what made it so  deadly.
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Health officials in New York City reveal a new highly drug-resistant strain of HIV in  a local resident.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- Scientists have developed a compound that may be able to treat cases of chronic myelogenous leukemia that are resistant to the so-called miracle drug Gleevec.
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Scientists said on Wednesday they have identified a weakness in a protein in influenza viruses which could be targeted by new drugs to halt the spread of infection.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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The parasite that causes river blindness, a crippling disease endemic in Africa and tropical regions of the Americas, may be developing resistance to the one drug used to treat it, according to research published Friday in The Lancet.
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Advanced X-ray technology has helped scientists spot a new target that drug designers might use to attack the dreaded bird flu virus.
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German scientists have found a new way  to prevent the HIV virus from replicating, offering hope in the  face of the virus's increasing resistance to existing drugs.
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Researchers at the University of Maryland are in a race to figure out how the avian flu replicates so it isn't transmitted easily within a community or more.
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The tiny tubes of FluMist quiver as they speed hour after hour down the assembly line, armed with an invisible blend of virus and targeted in a chaotic flu season at the many Americans cut off from a flu shot.
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A strain of avian influenza among pigs was found at several farms, a discovery that could move the virus a step closer to becoming a deadly problem for people.