This Season's Flu Vaccine Isn't as Ineffective as We Feared
By the time everything’s said and done, this winter’s flu season may very well be the worst in several years, and by…
Just Get The Damn Flu Shot
The flu tends to be the leaky basement pipe of disease: It’s easy enough to avoid doing something about it, right up…
Experimental Heroin Vaccine Triggers the Immune System So Mice Can't Get High
One of the white whales of vaccine research—a cure for addiction—is a very small step closer to reality. Last week,…
No, We Don't Need a Bullshit Vaccine 'Safety Challenge'
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the vaccine critic that Donald Trump is reportedly considering to chair a committee on vaccine…
A Freak Mumps Outbreak Strikes Washington State
A mumps outbreak in Washington has health officials concerned over how to keep the disease contained. The state…
Anti-Vaccine Group Compares Vaccinations to Rape
An anti-vaccination group in Australia is facing backlash today over a Facebook post that claims vaccination is just…
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Rabies
So far as awful ways to die go, being attacked by a rabid animal then dying a slow, painful death must rank near the…
Simple animation explains that yes, you should vaccinate your kids
There's a lot of hubbub and crap being spewed about not vaccinating your kids and letting measles creep back into our…
This Wallpaper-Like Pattern Isn't Flowers, It's The Smallpox Vaccine
This print sure looks like petals (it's even called Flowers). But nope: the pattern is liver cells that have been…
This Is What It's Like To Be An Unvaccinated Child
Vaccines save lives and prevent untold amounts of suffering. It's that simple. And yet, still, many parents refuse to…
The world's first malaria vaccine is on track to be approved by 2015, paving the way for its use by 2016. "It's on that…
A Working Malaria Vaccine Could Be Used In Developing Countries By 2015
Malaria research has been advancing rapidly in recent years, and now there's even more hope: scientists have developed…
A potential new malaria vaccine puts weakened parasites into the body
Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases on the planet, killing about 2,000 people every day. Much effort has been put…
HPV vaccines are saving countless lives – but we could do so much more
Newly published findings reveal that, since its introduction in 2006, the HPV vaccine has reduced HPV infection rates…
Scientists Are Making a Vaccine for Alcoholism That Will Give You Terrible Hangovers
Though most borderline alcoholics don't need an anti-fun vaccine for alcoholism, those that drink a little too much…
RNA-based vaccine could wipe out the flu forever
While traditional vaccines can offer annual protection from the latest flu strains, the viruses mutate and evolve so…
Soon, Your Vaccinations Will Be Arriving Via Email
Craig Venter, the über-DNA jockey who quietly sequenced the human genome using his own DNA, then made "synthetic life"…
The Miracle Cure That's Hiding in Plain Sight
You've maybe never heard of Bacillus Calmette–Guérin—it sounds kinda French after all, so why would you? But scratch a…
Universal vaccine could give us a world without the flu
Because flu viruses mutate so fast, the only way to stop them is to destroy their ability to evolve. That's the key to…