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A new series of papers just published by The Lancet provides evidence that improving breastfeeding practices could save the lives of over 820,000 children a year, 9 out of 10 of them infants under 6 months.

HIV resistance to the antiretroviral drug tenofovir (Viread) is increasingly common, a new study finds.

Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Dr. Carissa F. Etienne (left), and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan, at WHO Executive Board meeting on Zika virus situation.

An Eritrean man shows his back with the skin disease he contracted in his crowded cell at the Zawiya detention centre near Tripoli, the capital of Libya.

Keith Taylor

A new study shows that it is possible to use an imaging technique called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to view, in atomic detail, the binding of a potential small molecule drug to a key protein in cancer cells. The cryo-EM images also helped the researchers establish, at atomic resolution, the sequence of structural changes that normally occur in the protein, p97, an enzyme critical for protein regulation that is thought to be a novel anti-cancer target.

The site in Chromosome 6 harboring the gene C4 towers far above other risk-associated areas on schizophrenia’s genomic “skyline,” marking its strongest known genetic influence. The new study is the first to explain how specific gene versions work biologically to confer schizophrenia risk.