A vaccine invented at the University of Guelph to protect against Campylobacter jejuni – one of the leading bacterial causes of food-borne illness in the world – has just been approved for human...

The mosquito borne viral disease, Dengue fever, causes significant illness and death worldwide, in fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) says over 2.5 billion people – over 40 percent of the world’s...

PRESS RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 25, 2014 – Twenty years ago, the immunization landscape was starkly different from what it is now. More than 100,000 cases of poliomyelitis and 1.2 million cases...

PRESS RELEASE The CDC estimates that vaccinations will prevent more than 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths among children born in the last 20 years. Despite the U.S. immunization program’s...

Princeton University received attention back in March 2013 following eight cases of infection from serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, and a total of nine cases associated with the university....

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given away and pledged billions of dollars for a wide range of disease conditions ranging from malaria to neglected tropical diseases to vaccines. And this doesn’t...

In a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) news release yesterday, the agency is recommending that health care provider temporarily suspend the use of the Rotarix vaccine for rotavirus immunization due to...

The British medical journal, The Lancet, has retracted a controversial study from 1998 in which the author suggested a link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The lead researcher,...

The British medical journal, The Lancet, has retracted a controversial study from 1998 in which the author suggested a link between autism and the measles,mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. The lead researcher,...

In a press release issued by the Southwest Foundation for Biochemical Research, a contract with Dutch pharmaceutical company Crucell has been received to test a vaccine against two of the most dangerous...