Colorized transmission electron micrograph of influenza A/H1N1 virus particles. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) today announced the ...

By Mariam Sunny and Jennifer Rigby May 22 (Reuters) - Global health authorities are racing to identify medical options to ...

With no approved vaccine for the fast-growing Ebola outbreak in the DRC, experts weigh testing one with unknown protection.

The team are working on testing the ChAdOx1 BDBV vaccine, a type of viral-vector vaccine that has been previously used in the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is canceling the development of 22 mRNA vaccines, citing a lack of efficacy for preventing respiratory viruses like the flu and COVID-19. The department ...

I n December 2020, mRNA vaccines leapt into the limelight as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, millions of people ...

No. The currently approved Ebola vaccine used for outbreak response is called Ervebo. Ervebo protects against one species of Ebola virus, called Zaire ebolavirus. It has not been proven to protect ...

Stanley Plotkin recalls a night in 1957, during his pediatrics internship, when a father brought a gravely ill toddler into the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital on his shift. The 3-year-old was ...

Global health authorities are racing to identify medical options to help contain an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic ...

A small number of experimental vaccines and therapies are being assessed, while global health authorities are also reviewing ...