Publicis Groupe SA agreed Thursday to pay $350 million to settle claims it helped OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma fuel the opioids epidemic in the United States. Oregon officials declared a 90-day ...

Based on the memoir of neurologist Oliver Sacks showcasing his treatment in the 1960s of the patients who had survived the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic, ‘Awakenings’ is a beautifully ...

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Townsville Public Health Unit said on Friday that one person had tested positive for the rare Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), and another for dengue virus. The individual with JEV is receiving ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Townsville. Followed categories will be added to My News. Townsville Public Health Unit director Dr Steven Donohue has revealed a resident was also being ...

Queensland Health staff in Townsville are treating an elderly man with dengue fever and a middle-aged man with Japanese encephalitis (JEV). The dengue case is Townsville's first breakthrough case ...

This whooping cough epidemic might be the biggest, ugliest and most challenging in New Zealand's history. Photo / 123RF Wanting to help children was one of the main reasons I became an ...

Victoria's health department is urging people in the state's north to remain vigilant against mosquitoes, following recent detections of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). JEV is a rare virus that ...

A global stockpile created by the WHO The study therefore confirms the protection provided by two doses of this vaccine, even during an epidemic, and the reduction in the incidence of the disease.

Williams plays Malcolm Sayer, a doctor at a New York hospital in 1960 who is treating patients who contracted encephalitis lethargica nearly three decades beforehand. Although their illness is far ...

LUCKNOW, India (AP)- India's government sent thousands of ineffective vaccines to a northern Indian state, halting a planned immunization drive against a deadly outbreak of Japanese encephalitis that ...

While experimental seizures induced by chemoconvulsants or electrical stimulation transiently enhance neurogenesis, the effects of encephalitis and the resultant virus-induced seizures remain ...