Scientific American Special Report: 10 Promising Treatments for World's Biggest Health Threats

Read the full article by Charles Q. Choi on Scientific American online.

Included in the article:

* Dengue--Live attenuated 17D yellow fever and dengue chimera

A disease afflicting half a million people annually requires a special kind of vaccine

* Hepatitis C--E1E2/MF59

The world's first preventative vaccine against Hepatitis C could curb the spread of the disease that killed Allen Ginsberg and thousands of others

* Malaria--RTS,S/AS02A

Killing more than two million people, mostly children, every year, this disease will finally face the first ever commercially available vaccine designed to fight it

* HIV--HPTN 046 and Nevirapine

Preventing the half-million cases of mother to child transmission of HIV every year would go a long way to turning the tide of an epidemic