Medical experts in Miami are hoping to speed up research using embryonic stem cells. Their work may lead to advances in treatment for spinal cord injuries, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses. President Barack Obama signs an Executive Order on s...
By Jessica Berman Washington 21 June 2007 U.S. researchers are using gene therapy to treat the neurological condition Parkinson's disease, and they say the results so far are promising. VOA's Jessica Berman reports. Successful gene therapy to correct...
By Carol Pearson Washington 01 May 2007 Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers for men in the developed world. Some 400,000 new cases are likely to be diagnosed this year in the United States and Europe, and close to 90,000 men are expecte...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 27 October 2006 Africa's Sahel region, stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia, along the southern edge of the Sahara, has been called the meningitis belt. More than half the world's cases of the disease occur there. Researchers i...
By Jessica Berman Washington 11 May 2006 French researchers at the Sanofi Pasteur Institute say they have developed a bird flu vaccine that, so far, appears to be safe and effective in humans. But obs...
By Jessica Berman Washington 08 May 2006 Scientists report they have cured a highly malignant form of cancer in ordinary laboratory mice using the white blood cells of mice that are resistant to cance...