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Three Americans win 2009 Nobel for medicine

Posted 5/10/2009

Three American scientists won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology on Monday for their discovery of how chromosomes are copied and protected, work that cast light on cancer and the aging process....

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A couple wearing protective masks rest as they wait for their flight at Kingsford Smith International Airport in Sydney on June 17, 2009. Photo/REUTERS

Many swine flu deaths linked with second infection

Posted 1/10/2009

Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported...

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A woman who is infected with HIV prepares her medicines. Photo/REUTERS

U.N. says millions still lack access to AIDS drugs

Posted 30/9/2009

More than half of the 9.5 million people who need AIDS drugs cannot get them and 33 million people across the world are still...

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An undated scanning electron micrograph shows the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), spherical in appearance, on the surface of a human lymphocyte. Photo/REUTERS

Thailand wins praise for AIDS vaccine trial

Posted 29/9/2009

An experimental AIDS vaccine that appears to be the first to protect people was mired for years in controversy, and credit for...

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