Vaccines have been a cornerstone of that effort for centuries, safeguarding generations against preventable diseases—right ...

The history of medicine goes back to the dawn of mankind when ancient healers used special herbs to treat illnesses. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, laid the foundation for modern medical ...

A strong contemporary anti-vaccination movement, as exemplified by the opinions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others, prompts us to examine the history of the vaccine movement, how we got here, and ...

And regular polling carried out by YouGov suggests adults are increasingly likely to say that vaccines have harmful side ...

Jenner, subsequently, exposed the boy to smallpox. Interestingly, the boy did not contract smallpox. Even after multiple exposures to smallpox, the young boy never got sick. Later scientists realized ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus, but a preparation of vaccinia (a form of cowpox) virus. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British physician, demonstrated that infection caused by ...

More than two centuries ago, Edward Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccine laid the foundation for modern public health, saving millions of lives. In 1776, George Washington ordered all his ...

Depending on when and where you were born, you might have a particular scar on your arm that everyone else around you also has. This, as many of you probably already know, is the smallpox vaccine.

ON January 26, 1823, Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of protective vaccination against smallpox, died in his home at Berkeley—a village of Gloucestershire—where he had lived long and ...

The current wave of scepticism is the latest rekindling of an angry debate going back to the dawn of vaccination in 1796 when Edward Jenner created the smallpox vaccine. In the 1890s huge crowds ...

Experts call the health implications “dire” with some fearing Kennedy could set off a fresh round in the school culture wars ...

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late ... More than 200 years ago, physician Edward Jenner made a crucial-discovery which led to the first vaccine. He found that milkmaids who developed ...