His malaria vaccination appointment at a clinic in central Cameroon was too important to miss. For decades, millions of ...

In what's been hailed as a "massive breakthrough," a chlamydia vaccine implant has been administered to a wild koala for the ...

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is the fastest-growing one in history and responders are struggling to keep up ...

It was like a horror movie. The invisible polio virus would strike, leaving young children on crutches, in wheelchairs or in a dreaded “iron lung” ventilator. Each summer, the fear was so great that ...

State data shows that most Nueces County students adhere to vaccination requirements. But conscientious exemptions are higher ...

Two new studies find that British colonists arriving via ship in the late 18th century likely introduced smallpox, which ...

It is perhaps one of the smallest museums in Northeast Ohio, but it tells one of the biggest stories about modern medicine ...

Historian Christopher Carosa will present research on the true origins of the hamburger at a West Bloomfield event.

We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and may be distressing. In April 1789, the first smallpox ...

Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip-flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys, and the intrepid ...

He created U.S. Healthcare, one of the first H.M.O.s, and used his great wealth from the sale of the company for causes like ...

The outbreak of plague in 1346-53, known as the Black Death, was one of the worst pandemics in recorded history. Between a ...