Vaccines are one of the great success stories in the history of individual and public health. They have helped rid the planet of the scourge of smallpox, are poised to eliminate polio, and each year prevent millions of...
The World Health Organization’s Coordinator for Programme and Impact Monitoring in the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, Dr. Thomas Cherian predicts that 26 million deaths from vaccine...
Oxford scientists have developed a novel new malaria vaccine which can protect against the deadly mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine has shown promising results in the first clinical trial to test whether it can...
Vaccinations have been credited with some of humanity’s greatest health technological triumphs over disease, including drastically reducing polio around the globe and almost eliminating smallpox entirely. But how...
A new study suggests an additional—and somewhat surprising—potential benefit of vaccinating children against rotavirus, a common cause of diarrhea and vomiting. Besides protecting kids from intestinal illness caused by...
The GAVI Alliance’s public-private partnership is helping more children in the developing world than ever before to receive life-saving immunizations, GAVI said on Wednesday. According to information presented during an...
Influenza is a major challenge to healthcare systems world-wide. While prophylactic vaccination is largely efficient, long-lasting immunity has not been achieved in immunized populations, at least in part due to the...
As countries like India and Africa – hotbeds for malaria – await the world’s first vaccine against the disease, a leading expert said the results of clinical trials were “modestly...
As Syria awaits confirmation of suspected polio cases in the east of the country, UNICEF has joined the World Health Organisation and other partners in mounting a large-scale immunisation effort aimed at protecting as...
Promising results from a clinical trial mean that the world’s first malaria vaccine may be available by 2015 and could save hundreds of thousands of lives. Promising results from a large-scale clinical trial mean...