Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

The race against Zika

While most of us were first hearing of a strange, new and dangerous mosquito-borne virus stampeding across South and Central America and into Mexico, University of Alberta virologist Tom Hobman and his team were months deep ...

Health

Opinion: The US needs a lesson in food policy from Mexico

What do you tell people when you're an invited "expert," yet in some ways you're the dumbest person in the room? That was my thought in February 2014, when Mexican leaders invited me to speak at a National Governors Conference ...

Cardiology

Researchers develop vaccine to treat high cholesterol

A team of researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a vaccine to treat high cholesterol. The vaccine, which targets a molecule called PCSK9, a protein involved ...

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