Scientists at King’s College London have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to...
There’s no one place a virus goes to die — but that doesn’t make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted...
Indian billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will cut the price of polio immunisation and introduce shots for diarrhoea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline...
Governments meeting at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board (WHO EB) must seize the opportunity to improve serious shortcomings in the document that will drive the global community’s vaccines response in the...
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria that may improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV...
Most people think of the flu when the word “vaccine” comes up in conversation, but several vaccines also exist to help prevent cancers. Not only that numerous researchers are also working to harness the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) 2012 Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty says infectious diseases remain key agents of the debilitating poverty afflicting so much of the world today. The...
Every year, between 3,000 and 49,000 people die from the flu and its complications. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which took the lives of between 20 million and 40 million...
One of the greatest medical achievements of our time is at imminent risk of being undermined by bad science. Thanks to a herculean effort by health advocates, 78 percent of children in low-income countries receive the...
A new study suggests that HIV may have affected humans much longer than is currently believed. In fact, the virus might have been around undetected for so many centuries that a human community developed some degree of...