Parents of infants in Bauchi State are in palpable fear over the ongoing lack of essential life-saving vaccines immunisation ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine is still effective for ...

Mumbai: From Dec 2024, 16,000 adults in Mumbai have received the BCG vaccine—a shot traditionally administered to infants as protection against tuberculosis (TB)—with a majority of them ...

Thousands of children, women and senior citizens in Calbayog, Samar are set to receive various vaccines as part of the ...

Dementia is one of the most feared conditions of old age with few effective treatments and no cure. Almost 950,000 people ...

Mrs. Lavina Mariba, today, celebrated the launch of the African vaccination week as a proud mother, with all her three children fully ...

A healthy 30-year-old woman in Ireland was mistakenly injected with a BCG vaccine instead of an MMR shot, causing a severe TB infection. The error went unnoticed ...

Cases of a Victorian-era lung disease continue to rise in England and experts warn its growing resistance to antibiotics is a ...

Two doses of a simple tuberculosis vaccination after surgery helps the immune system fight cancer cells and could greatly ...

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 ...

Common childhood infections once considered mere inconveniences may provide unexpected long-term benefits. Emerging research ...