Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux called for post-polio to be recognised as a chronic disease for medical aids to pay for ...

Artscape CEO Marlene le Roux, a polio survivor denied access to vaccine as a child due to apartheid policies, is fighting for ...

Credit: Unsplash/ Kelly Sikkema. Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a rare but serious neurological condition that impacts the ...

A new type of ‘vaccine scepticism’ has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University, who examined a nine-million-word corpus of tweets looking at vaccine comparisons and evaluations.

The U_N_ says Israel's 17-month-old military campaign in Gaza has created "largest cohort of child amputees in modern history ...

Topline data were announced from a phase 2/3 trial evaluating immune globulin intravenous (human) in patients with post-polio syndrome.

During the summers of the years after World War II, mothers dreaded fever in a child because these were the worst years of ...

"Polio is something that we know how to prevent ... depending on virus type Paralysis (can’t move parts of the body) or weakness in the arms, legs, or both occurs in about 1 out of 200 people to 1 in ...

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 ...

AS measles cases in Europe hit a 25-year high, Brits are being urged to watch for symptoms of the highly contagious disease. Most people associate measles with a flat, red rash that appears on the ...

University of Leeds researchers have taken a major step towards producing a more affordable and lower-risk polio vaccine using virus-like particles (VLPs). These particles mimic the outer protein ...

The immune system is the body’s tool for preventing or limiting infection. Its complex network of cells, organs, proteins, and tissues enables the immune system to defend the body from pathogens.