Government Agency Urges Black HIV/AIDS Awareness

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, joins African-Americans in remembering those who have died with AIDS and in fighting the disease. “We have a national responsibility to alleviate the HIV/AIDS-related suffering of African-Americans by ensuring that they have full knowledge of—and access to—all proven forms of [...]

Science, Health & Recalls August 4

An American woman paid $50,000 for five puppies that were cloned from her dead pitbull by South Korean company RNL Bio, the Associated Press reports. The company cloned the dog with researchers at Seoul National University where scientists created the first cloned dog in 2005. The company hopes to clone roughly 300 dogs annually. Scientists [...]

Science, Health & Recalls May 12

Two families in Portland, Oregon will take on the medical system with a Federal court case they filed alleging that a mercury-based preservative in vaccines triggers autism, the Associated Press reports. The families will use two 10-year-old boys to show that children developing normally can become prone to autism when exposed to vaccines with thimerosal. The CDC [...]