In the second half of the 20th century, modern medicine was able to conquer smallpox and polio. Then, in the 1980s, another public health epidemic reared its ugly head: human ...

A Tulane University researcher, Dr Elizabeth Norton, has received $1.6 million from the Gates Foundation to develop a ...

A joint procurement contract between the EU and Danish manufacturer Bavarian Nordic strengthens vaccine preparedness against ...

As measles cases continue to rise around the globe, the World Health Organization warns it's a signal that other disease ...

Forty thousand Karachi families refused polio vaccines this year. In a city where the virus circulates through every district, those refusals represent the gap between Pakistan's impressive polio ...

The Homa Bay county health department has reported two M-pox cases in the region. One of the patient had invigilated the ...

Last year’s outbreaks were the largest in a decade, fueled by an emerging variant of the highly contagious, hard-to-kill ...

EBV is a member of the herpesvirus family, the same group responsible for chickenpox and cold sores. It spreads easily ...

About 5 million people worldwide live with the autoimmune condition lupus. This condition can cause a range of symptoms, ...

The 9th Circuit made a ruling this year that could allow far-ranging government interference with private health decisions.

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The only wild specimens of a rare blue parrot, which were recently returned to their natural habitat, have been diagnosed with an incurable, likely lethal virus, Brazil's government told AFP Thursday.