With the release of their foundation’s latest annual Goalkeepers Report, Bill and Melinda Gates are doing a lot of…

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca formally announced on Wednesday that its Phase III trial in the UK testing out a…

New Zealand’s top health official stepped down on Thursday following a relatively minor scandal that shows the…

By the time everything’s said and done, this winter’s flu season may very well be the worst in several years, and by…

The flu tends to be the leaky basement pipe of disease: It’s easy enough to avoid doing something about it, right up…

One of the white whales of vaccine research—a cure for addiction—is a very small step closer to reality. Last week,…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the vaccine critic that Donald Trump is reportedly considering to chair a committee on…

A mumps outbreak in Washington has health officials concerned over how to keep the disease contained. The state…

An anti-vaccination group in Australia is facing backlash today over a Facebook post that claims vaccination is just…

The study, the results of which are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, involved a…

So far as awful ways to die go, being attacked by a rabid animal then dying a slow, painful death must rank near the…

There's a lot of hubbub and crap being spewed about not vaccinating your kids and letting measles creep back into…

This print sure looks like petals (it's even called Flowers). But nope: the pattern is liver cells that have been…

Vaccines save lives and prevent untold amounts of suffering. It's that simple. And yet, still, many parents refuse…

Malaria research has been advancing rapidly in recent years, and now there's even more hope: scientists have develope…

Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases on the planet, killing about 2,000 people every day. Much effort has been…

Newly published findings reveal that, since its introduction in 2006, the HPV vaccine has reduced HPV infection…

Though most borderline alcoholics don't need an anti-fun vaccine for alcoholism, those that drink a little too much…

While traditional vaccines can offer annual protection from the latest flu strains, the viruses mutate and evolve so…