One of the most contagious viruses in nature is the one that causes shingles, according to medical experts. The virus, which also causes...

A major study published in The Lancet has demonstrated the high effectiveness of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine in older ad...

The first trials of mRNA vaccines for cancer have commenced, marking a potentially significant breakthrough in cancer treatment. The medic...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the addition of a single-dose vaccine to its preventative arsenal against the human papill...

A new mRNA vaccine against lung cancer, known as BNT116, has shown encouraging results in its initial trials, offering hope for improved t...

Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out the “revolutionary” new Men5CV vaccine against meningitis, the World Health ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian scientists were close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available t...

The government of north Cyprus on Monday recommenced its Covid-19 vaccination programme, following an announcement by the ‘health ministry’....

The world’s first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children’s ...

At least 1.4 million lives have been saved in Europe thanks to Covid vaccines, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, recalling that...

A trial of an experimental HIV vaccine in Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa has been stopped early after preliminary data suggested it woul...

Turkish scientists Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, the co-founders of BioNTech, have announced that their cancer vaccine has succeeded in halti...

Moderna and rival Pfizer on Wednesday said their updated COVID-19 vaccines generated strong responses in testing against the highly mutate...

Adding an experimental mRNA-based vaccine from Moderna Inc MRNA.O and Merck & Co MRK.N reduced the risk that the most deadly skin cance...

America will scrap vaccine mandates for federal employees and international travelers next week — finally bringing the US in line with the...

China began developing Covid-19 vaccines before the official start of the outbreak, a new report claims. A 300-page document, compiled by t...

People all over the world lost confidence in the importance of routine childhood vaccines against killer diseases like measles and po...

Vaccines against cancer and heart disease could be ready by the end of the decade, according to Moderna’s chief executive. Dr Paul Burton, ...

A lack of funding could delay late-stage trials of the first new vaccine against tuberculosis for more than a century, warned Bill Gates, ...

In what is believed to be a world first, China’s commercial capital of Shanghai last week introduced a new type of COVID-19 vaccine that is...