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Reviewed by: Yeong Sek Yee & Khadijah Shaari This article is a summary of Chapter 1 “MISSING DATA” of the bestselling book, BAD PHARMA by Dr Ben Goldacre which was released in Oct 2012. The author Dr Ben Michael Goldacre, graduated in...

LONDON: Early results from a crucial case-control study in Brazil have confirmed a direct causal link between Zika virus infection in pregnant women and the brain damaging birth defect microcephaly in their babies, scientists said on Thursday. But while...

New Vaccines against Epidemic Infectious Diseases — NEJM Perspective New Vaccines against Epidemic Infectious Diseases John-Arne Røttingen, M.D., Ph.D., Dimitrios Gouglas, M.Sc., Mark Feinberg, M.D., Ph.D., Stanley Plotkin, M.D., Krishnaswamy V. Raghavan...

The World Health Organization on Friday declared that Zika no longer constitutes an international emergency, but it stressed a need for a long-term effort to address the virus, which has been linked to birth defects and neurological complications. Officials...

Scientists say they may have found a way to protect babies in the womb from the harmful effects of Zika, the BBC reports. So far the US team has only had success in mice with its antibody treatment, but it says it might eventually lead to a therapy...