January 3, 2017 Wounded toll at 25,000 a month in Syria, medicines lacking, cholera feared: WHO About 25,000 people are wounded each month in escalating warfare in Syria and it getting harder to deliver medical supplies for civilians trapped in areas held by Islamic State insurgents, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
January 3, 2017 Severe malnutrition confirmed in Syria's Madaya, 32 deaths reported in month: U.N. The U.N. children's fund UNICEF on Friday confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where local relief workers reported 32 deaths of starvation in the past month.
January 3, 2017 Philippine FDA orders Sanofi to take down dengue vaccine ads The Philippine Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it has ordered pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur Inc. to stop airing television and radio advertisements for its dengue vaccine in violation of a ban on promoting prescription or ethical drugs in mass media.
January 3, 2017 Pakistani city launches new polio campaign after rare strain found Pakistan began a special five-day polio immunization campaign in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday for children under five after a rare strain of the virus was found in sewage samples, officials said.
December 23, 2016 Many Brazilian women avoiding pregnancy due to Zika fears, study finds Brazil should urgently review its reproductive health policies, scientists said on Friday, to support the more than 50 percent of potential mothers who say they want to avoid pregnancy due to fears about the Zika virus.
December 23, 2016 Angola declares end to world's worst yellow fever epidemic in decades Angola declared the end of the world's worst yellow fever epidemic in a generation on Friday after a U.N.-backed vaccination campaign of 25 million people that resulted in no new cases in six months.
December 21, 2016 Inovio's Zika vaccine evokes robust response in human study Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc said its experimental Zika vaccine induced robust immune responses in an early-stage study in human volunteers who have not been infected with the virus.
December 16, 2016 DNA vaccines: Next defense against Zika, other invaders Dr. Keith Hamilton took his turn in the patient chair and braced for the sting of an experimental Zika vaccine.
December 15, 2016 Could vaccines protect kids from stroke, too? Stroke is rare in children, but the risk of it happening is increased when a child has a cold or the flu, and reduced when kids are fully vaccinated, according to a new study.
December 13, 2016 Spoonful of sugar alone may not ease babies' vaccination pain The best way to ease babies' pain during vaccinations may be to give them a sip of sugar and rub anesthetic cream on the injection site before they get shots, a recent experiment suggests.
