What the shingles vaccine does is it dampens reactivations of latent viruses in a way that may be protecting other parts of your body,” Martin said. Including, it seems, the brain. The measles, mumps ...

Japan has pledged $5 million through UNICEF to immunize 13 million children in Afghanistan against polio, reinforcing its ...

Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

Physicians who champion immunization sustain herd immunity, reducing the incidence of severe diseases, hospitalizations, and ...

Japan has provided $5 million through UNICEF to support polio eradication efforts and strengthen immunization programs across ...

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

Child mortality has been halved in the last 25 years. Building on this progress, new innovations in immunization are working ...

Before the vaccines, such illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

High in the clouds, where the air is thin and the roads are treacherous, a group of committed health workers climbs mountains ...