Bovine Colostrum

Avian flu surveillance is hard, dirty, unpleasant work—and no one does it better than Dr. Guan Yi and his team at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Shantou University in Guangdong province, China. Every day, Guan's technicians scour live-animal...

The knives are now out for Dr. Julio Frenk, Mexico’s candidate for director general of the World Health Organization. Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that some anti-smoking activists are attacking Dr. Frenk for a deal he made...

Here’s why I’m not worried about a recent report that cell phone use has been associated with low sperm count in men. A) I am a woman. B) I just spent a half hour on the phone with the first...

It’s been nearly a year since TIME hosted its Global Health Summit in New York and we’re still seeing positive results. The U.N. Foundation has just given the United Methodists a $100,000 grant to help underwrite the beginnings of what...

Some good news from the midst of the dengue outbreak in India. This morning's newspapers report that Indian scientists have identified the mechanism through which the dengue virus enters the blood platelets, opening the way for a future vaccine. Here's...