A prior phase II trial had shown that BCG revaccination in teens led to 45.4% efficacy in reversion from positive to negative ...

Tjandra said the current TB vaccine being used is the BCG, which was discovered 104 years ago in 1921. Therefore, he suggested that a new vaccine should be developed now, and even earlier. He revealed ...

Academic researchers in Massachusetts believe the standard BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine could have a remarkable second use: a treatment to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes. The cause of ...

Getting a shingles vaccine may help with more than the viral infection that causes painful rashes — new research shows it can also lower the risk of heart disease. In a study, published Monday ...

in combination with the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with papillary disease. According to ImmunityBio, the move ...

BY 2003, THEY HAD CREATED A RATTLESNAKE VACCINE FOR DOGS AND HORSES. IT WAS LICENSED BOTH IN THE STATE AND BY THE USDA. BY 2004, THE PRODUCT WE CAME UP WITH DOES GENERATE ANTIVENIN KIND OF ...

The gaps threaten to widen and feed a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases like the ongoing outbreak of measles, say those who study the phenomenon. Get a dash of perspective along with the ...

In late March, Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, was forced out of his job by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a resignation letter, Marks wrote ...

India for the World, a leadership podcast series presented by Mint and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), has just launched its debut episode, spotlighting a topic critical to India’s financial ...

A type of herpes virus — the varicella-zoster virus — causes chickenpox in childhood and shingles later in life. Shingles travels along nerves, triggering a distinctive blistering rash and ...

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recently made a pretty bold – and misleading – claim about the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, stating that it contains “a lot of ...