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Three quarters of people in South Sudan have no access to medical care, and 10 percent of children there and in Darfur die...
Global efforts to immunize children against life-threatening diseases set a record high last year but failed to protect millions...
A vaccine helped block the high felt by cocaine users in 38 percent of people who took it, U.S. researchers said on Monday,...
Think you need antibiotics to fight that cough or cold? Numerous Web sites are willing to sell them to you without a doctor's...
The confusion surrounding adult vaccination help illustrates some of the big problems looming for Congress as it struggles...
The global recession has pushed up to 90 million more people into extreme poverty, the United Nations said on Monday, warning...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it plans to reinstate booster shots of a vaccine that...
There has been a marked increase in screening pregnant women to see if they're carrying group B streptococcus (GBS), ever...
Five governments and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $1.5 billion on Friday to help give poor countries better...
When parents are more knowledgeable about vaccinations, their children are more likely to get them, a new study shows. The...
A meningitis outbreak in Nigeria is more serious than initially feared with the death toll rising more than sixfold over...
People with HIV are at high risk from the new flu strain that the World Health Organization said is on the verge of a pandemic,...
Meningitis has killed more than 2,500 people this year in West and Central Africa in what could become the worst epidemic...
Nigeria's Kano state and drugmaker Pfizer Inc have agreed to the broad terms of an out-of-court settlement in a multibillion...
One third of the world's stockpiled meningitis vaccine doses have been dispatched to West Africa where an outbreak has killed...
An X-ray-guided spinal tap -- a procedure in which a small needle is inserted into the patient's lower spine to retrieve...
Chinese state media accused a local government on Tuesday of covering up the number of children suffering from hand, foot...
An outbreak of meningitis in Nigeria has killed 333 people in the last three months, the health minister said Wednesday....
Two batches of a Novartis meningitis C vaccine containing a total of 17,000 doses have been recalled in Britain due to contamination...
When the letters and e-mails started to pour in, Dr. Paul Offit braced himself. The pediatrician and vaccine inventor is...
From 2003 to 2006, cases of infection with group B streptococcus (GBS), which can be life threatening, have increased among...
Strep infections and not the flu virus itself may have killed most people during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which suggests...
Minnesota has seen an increase in Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib) cases in young children. According to US federal health...
A rise in illnesses caused by a bacterial infection among children in Minnesota, including a fatal case of meningitis, may...
A routine childhood vaccine used to prevent several common types of infections has helped cut the rate of a deadly form of...
Novartis AG will license a program of vaccines from U.S. group AlphaVax against cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections, which can...
Giving just one fifth the dose of a commonly used meningitis vaccine may be as effective as using the full dose, researchers...
U.S. health officials asked doctors on Thursday to be alert for possible cases of meningitis and other illnesses in children...
Children who survive a bout of meningococcal sepsis, a life-threatening infection, often suffer from long-term medical problems,...
Girls and young women given Merck and Co's Gardasil vaccine to prevent cervical cancer were not any more likely than usual...
