A vaccine developed in Franchini's NIH laboratory was tested on 16,000 high-risk patients in Thailand, and proved to be 31 percent effective in preventing the HIV infection that causes AIDS.

Tabaré Vázquez, an oncologist who became the first centre-left politician to be elected president of Uruguay and won popularity for a mix of pro-business policies and strong welfare programs ...

Tabare Vazquez, the president of Uruguay, has resigned from his own party after Socialists in congress voted to legalise abortion. Tabare Vasquez: A poll showed that 57 per cent of Uruguayans were ...

Former Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez died Sunday at the age of 80 from lung cancer, his family announced. "With deep pain we communicate the death of our beloved father," his sons Alvaro, ...