In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel for young readers, a girl in Boston must survive a dangerous smallpox epidemic—and ...

Meeting the unmet need for a vaccine is the top priority for researchers studying Lyme disease, which infects about 476,000 people in the U.S. each year and can come with severe complications such ...

This groundbreaking experiment led to the development of the smallpox vaccine and, eventually, to the eradication of the disease. The last known case occurred in 1977. Then there is polio.

Prior to true vaccines, you had people vigorously denouncing the idea of smallpox inoculation [in which healthy people were exposed to fluids from infected people's smallpox sores]. This is before ...

Tonix Pharmaceuticals presented positive preclinical data for TNX-801, a single-dose vaccine against mpox and smallpox, at a recent conference. Tonix Pharmaceuticals has presented encouraging ...

Smallpox infection was often more severe in pregnant women than in non-pregnant women or in men, regardless of vaccination status. Women with smallpox infection during pregnancy have higher rates ...

Practitioners must be prepared to answer questions regarding the smallpox vaccine and properly screen patients and their families for contraindications to vaccination, as well as make decisions ...

the creation of anesthesia and development of the smallpox vaccine among them. “Harvard University has helped us all on this planet in more ways than we know and saved the lives of loved ones in ...