Something is wrong in the fight against tuberculosis. Every second a person is infected by the Koch bacillus and a third of the world's population lives with it. The treatment is the same as 40 years ago and the vaccine has not changed since the '20s. In 2006, the WHO set the target for 2015 to reduce the infections by half, but victory seems distant: tuberculosis repeats its presence in the list of neglected diseases every year.

Ànnia Monreal | 24 March 2010

From chronic to non-existent. This is the gap that the AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa has opened when they showed that antiretroviral treatments fail to eradicate the HIV from the infected person's body. This is how a debate has closed that has locked the scientific community whilst at the same time channelling it on to the right path, perhaps final, to achieve a definite K.O. of the HIV.

Ànnia Monreal | 17 March 2010

Someone has uncovered the plot: The swine flu pandemic is just a hoax so that the Big Pharma can charge more. Hands up those who did not believe that sooner or later they were going to read this news. As expected, someone with sufficient credibility recently said something very similar, and all the media (of course) merrily joined the plot.

5 February 2010

Luca Tancredi Barone | Rome

'Research and challenges in global health: beyond science' was the title of a meeting of global health experts in Barcelona, on the 27th and 28th of October. On the discussion table lays a formula candidate for the malaria vaccine that has demonstrated its efficiency on children.

Jordi Montaner | 18 November 2009