October 27, 2015 Vaccine success holds hope for end to deadly scourge of Ebola The world is on the verge of being able to protect humans against Ebola, the World Health Organization said on Friday, as a trial in Guinea found a vaccine to have been 100 percent effective.
October 27, 2015 Adults have vaccination needs they often neglect, doctors say A new push is on to get more adults vaccinated against devastating diseases like pneumonia, shingles and whooping cough.
October 27, 2015 Serious reactions to childhood vaccines are rare, study says Serious reactions to vaccines are rare among children, according to a new review of vaccine safety in kids, which also refutes any link between vaccines and autism
October 27, 2015 Here's why the experimental Ebola drug can't be used by everyone Two Americans suffering from Ebola have been treated with an experimental drug, and they've reportedly seen big improvements.
October 27, 2015 GOP lawmakers ask schools to oppose HPV vaccine mandate Two Republican lawmakers are asking school districts to tell the governor to reverse a requirement that middle school students in Rhode Island get the HPV vaccine.
October 27, 2015 New vaccine approach imprisons malaria parasite in blood cells Scientists seeking a vaccine against malaria, which kills a child every minute in Africa, have developed a promising new approach intended to imprison the disease-causing parasites inside the red blood cells they infect.
October 27, 2015 Polio vaccines in Ukraine safe despite local concerns, UN says The World Health Organization (WHO) says it's worried that millions of doses of polio vaccine might be wasted in the Ukraine after concerns were raised by a patient group that the doses are unsafe.
October 27, 2015 A new push for meningitis B vaccines on college campuses As the fall semester gets under way, some U.S. colleges and universities are offering students new vaccines against a bug responsible for recent campus outbreaks of a rare but life-threatening form of meningitis.
October 27, 2015 Polio eradicators hail historic progress, aim to 'finish the job' The world is closer than ever to being able to wipe out polio, international experts said on Thursday, with zero cases of the crippling disease recorded across all of Africa this year and fewer than 25 globally.
October 27, 2015 Researchers develop promising DNA vaccine for MERS Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a DNA vaccine that can protect against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). This is the first synthetic vaccine that has been shown to induce protective immunity against the virus in animals, the researchers say.
