People who are older than 80 should be considered for osteoporosis treatment after a fracture to avoid further risk, ...

Vaccines do much more than prevent specific diseases — their side benefits save children's lives around the world ...

Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

On Aug. 27, the Rutland Daily Herald reported that doctors believed an epidemic of cerebral meningitis, spinal meningitis and cerebro-spinal meningitis had hit the city and surrounding area. Over the ...

It’s her family that won’t affirm her having polio.

Polio and monkeypox demonstrate a ‘heightened focus’ on viruses The “politicization of vaccines” may become a bigger problem going forward, according to Chris Meekins, a healthcare policy ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent ...

These findings imply that existing oral polio vaccines may be less effective at inducing transmission-blocking intestinal antibody responses in adults than they are in children.

Polio is in the news, with vaccination under threat and recent outbreaks. This makes Alan Marshall’s classic disability memoir more relevant than ever.

Some Americans know the reality of vaccine-preventable diseases all too well: “I just don’t want anybody else to go through ...