October 23, 2015 UN: More studies needed on new malaria shots before using it Vaccine experts advising the World Health Organization have recommended that further studies be done on a new malaria vaccine to figure out if officials can actually administer the four doses needed.
October 22, 2015 Genetics help explain poor showing for GSK malaria vaccine Scientists have found a genetic explanation for why the world's first malaria vaccine is not very effective in protecting some African children against the deadly mosquito-borne disease.
October 21, 2015 Mystery deaths in Sierra Leone spread fear of Ebola relapses A poster in Sierra Leone's crumbling coastal capital Freetown proclaims a message from an Ebola survivor called Sulliaman: "I feel 100 percent healthy!"
June 12, 2015 Syria: 15 children die after getting vaccinations At least 15 children died after receiving vaccinations in rebel-held parts of Syria, and activists said Wednesday that the death toll from two days of government airstrikes in the central city of Talbiseh climbed to nearly 50, a heavy toll even by the vicious standards of the country's civil war.
June 12, 2015 New advice for vaccines to stave off pneumonia People age 65 and older should get two separate vaccines to protect against pneumonia and other infections starting this fall, a change of decades-old advice, according to new health guidelines.
May 7, 2015 If we stopped vaccinating, we would be battling outbreaks that make the Ebola death toll look like child's play. If we stopped vaccinating, we would be battling outbreaks that make the Ebola death toll look like child's play.
February 5, 2015 US measles cases doubled in past month Measles outbreaks seem to be accelerating, and in the last five months have caused more U.S. illnesses than in any entire year since 1996.
February 5, 2015 Deaths from measles outbreak may be 'inevitable' as cases surge in US Health officials are worried about recent U.S. measles outbreaks that so far have caused more illnesses than at the same point of any year since 1996.
February 5, 2015 HIV vaccine researcher Dong-Pyou Han charged in major fraud case Responding to a major case of research misconduct, federal prosecutors are taking a rare step by charging a scientist with fraud after he admitted falsifying data while researching an HIV vaccine.
January 13, 2015 Vaccine possible in Cal campus meningitis outbreak State and federal officials are considering whether to provide students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with an unlicensed vaccine to prevent further spread of a bacterial meningitis outbreak on campus, a newspaper reported Saturday.
