A new vaccine launched in Somalia is one-jab armour against five preventable diseases. At the Medina Mother and Child Health Centre in Mogadishu, 6-month-old Abdul Wahab sleeps peacefully in his mother’s arms...
The latest bad news in the hunt for an AIDS vaccine: The government halted a large U.S. study on Thursday, saying the experimental shots aren’t preventing HIV infection. Nor did the shots reduce the amount of the...
Two million children risk catching measles as a result of the MMR scare, doctors warned yesterday. They said the outbreak in Wales could spread to London, where nearly half of the capital’s children are not vaccinated...
Haiti has recently introduced the pentavalent vaccine, a combination vaccine designed to protect children from five dangerous diseases. Jean-Pierre knows that vaccinating his daughter, Isabel, is one of the best gifts...
During the last three decades, the biopharmaceutical industry has invested significantly in new and improved vaccines. The results have provided remarkable new ways to prevent cases of cervical cancer, meningitis...
Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the...
On May 31, 1987, as panic about AIDS spread, a reporter for the New York Times spent a month investigating the transmission of the global epidemic. “In the kingdom of AIDS,” he wrote, “a penis itself, often likened to a...
Claims the outbreak of measles in south Wales was down to Department of Health policy in the 1990s is “completely incorrect”, the government has said. Vaccination rates fell after Dr Andrew Wakefield’s...
Researchers have discovered that rising temperature induces key changes in the dengue virus when it enters its human host, and the findings represent a new approach for designing vaccines against the aggressive mosquito...
A precious package arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last Thursday afternoon. Inside, packed in dry ice to keep it frozen, was a vial containing millions of viruses derived from a 35-year-old...