Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of ...

A new mRNA vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) is showing favorable results in preclinical trials. With only one currently ...

Currently, the only approved vaccine for TB is the century-old Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, which is widely used ...

The platform can be harnessed for TB, potentially improving protection and durability of immunity in a way that traditional ...

A new LNP-mRNA vaccine significantly boosts immune response and enhances BCG protection against tuberculosis, offering a ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine – named for its developers – contains inactivated mycobacteria that infect cattle and remains the only vaccination strategy against the infection in humans.

The child’s grandmother, who would care for him, also had tuberculosis (TB). In an attempt to protect the newborn from the disease, doctors gave him an oral dose of what was later named Bacille ...

Despite decades of efforts, tuberculosis remains a global health crisis, claiming over 1.3 million lives annually. In a ...

FDA approves an expanded access program that would offer patients an alternative to Merck’s bladder cancer medication.

Jane Akinyi (right) holding her baby while a medic adminster a Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine(BCG) vaccine at Forest Dispensary in Nakuru on January 28,2019.Most of the hospitals in the ...

Prof. Ruth Nduati, a Paediatrician and Researcher, emphasises the critical role of BCG vaccine in protecting newborns. BCG, she explains acts as an antigen, teaching the body’s immune system to ...