Nobody complains that we have more cancer medicines available today than in the 1980s. Why should we complain about having ...

Yet unlike other commonplace infections such as seasonal flu and COVID, no vaccine exists to help people avoid being sidelined by norovirus, a notoriously transmissible and resilient virus that is ...

In an early clinical trial, an experimental norovirus vaccine given as a pill produced defensive responses exactly where it counts—in the saliva of older people most vulnerable to the explosive ...

Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

In this article, we'll uncover the history behind smallpox and its defeat, journey through ... The smallpox vaccine, derived from the vaccinia virus, became a game-changer in the fight against ...

As viral vaccines are increasingly used to meet global health needs, the pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing larger ...

This season's influenza vaccine may have been a poor match to a strain of the flu virus that caused many infections this winter, early data released by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Low rates of vaccination among cases, as compared to the population as a whole, represents a key index of how effective measles vaccines are—the virus literally "finds" the unvaccinated people.

I have written about the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when 40 million people received a hastily made flu vaccine for a virus that never took hold and about 1 in 100,000 recipients appeared to acquire ...

Zydus Lifesciences on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) said it is introducing a vaccine for protection against new strain of influenza virus. “The company is introducing country’s first flu ...