Niger has become the latest West African country to roll out malaria vaccines to try to stifle the potentially deadly disease ...

Medical science has made astounding breakthroughs over the past century. With the advent of AI and quantum computing, there’s ...

They study the planet’s deadliest diseases in remote, conflict-prone areas in countries with the lowest health spending and ...

The resurgence of mpox during 2024 has been declared a continental emergency by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and a Public Health Emergency of International ...

For the first time, adults will be able to administer their own flu vaccines after the FDA approved a nasal spray to be administered without a health care provider ...

The F.D.A. authorized AstraZeneca’s treatment to be given outside a health care setting, although it will still need a ...

Polio vaccination teams successfully reached more than half a million children in Gaza during Round One of an ambitious ...

Judith Suminwa Tuluka was sworn in as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has set herself ambitious goals ...

UNICEF and partners are scaling up the emergency response in the DRC, Burundi and other countries in Africa, but more donor ...

The European Commission on Friday extended the authorization of the Imvanex mpox vaccine to teenagers aged 12 to 17.

Several hundred high-risk individuals were inoculated in Rwanda. Meanwhile, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the outbreak in Africa is still not under control, with ...

Youngsters have been especially impacted by mpox outbreaks raging in Africa, with children under five accounting for nearly a ...