Increased scrutiny is yielding positive results for the organ transplant system, with a significant drop in sick patients being overlooked for life-saving procedures.
A proposed U.S.-funded hepatitis B vaccine trial in West Africa involving infants has been halted, following widespread condemnation and host country refusal, highlighting ethical concerns in international medical research.
An outbreak of a fungal infection, histoplasmosis, has sickened dozens in Tennessee, resulting in one fatality, though the illness is not contagious and originates from common environmental soil.