NewsDesk @bactiman63  Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a Zika vaccine technology that is highly effective and safe in preclinical mouse models. In a pregnant...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 A team led by UCLA researchers will receive a multi-million dollar grant to study why some people suffer from a devastating fungal infection called Valley Fever, while others suffer...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Los Angeles County health officials report investigating the county’s 12th measles case of the year in a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) employee. Health officials...

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health notified UCLA earlier this week of a measles case in a student. School officials immediately identified and contacted students, faculty and staff with...

The Los Angeles County (LAC) Department of Public Health (DPH) has recently confirmed 5 cases of measles. All of the cases were adults, the majority were unvaccinated, and two had recently travelled internationally. LAC...

FINDINGS Infants born to HIV-positive mothers had high rates of congenital cytomegalovirus, or CMV. Infants who also were infected before birth by the virus that causes AIDS were especially prone to CMV...

Scientists have traditionally believed that combining more than two drugs to fight harmful bacteria would yield diminishing returns. The prevailing theory is that that the incremental benefits of combining...

Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to development of vaccines and therapeutic drugs to treat future outbreaks, according...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a new antibiotic into the arsenal for treating serious acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI). Its called delafloxacin and goes by...

Researchers from UCLA have developed a laboratory test that helps physicians determine which people with gonorrhea may be more treatable with an antibiotic that has not been recommended since 2007 because...