Effectiveness against both herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia remained stable for at least 4 years after vaccination.

An online survey conducted in the Netherlands suggests that informal use of doxycycline post-exposure and pre-exposure ...

Continued US defunding of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) foreign-aid program could result in more than 14 million excess deaths—including 4.5 million preschool children—from ...

Older US adults who receive the AS01-adjuvanted shingles or respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines may be at lower risk for dementia in the next 18 months, University of Oxford researchers write ...

Bill Gates at Gavi event in 2011. Photo: UK DFID / Flickr cc In the wake of US defunding of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, world leaders this week at the "Health and Prosperity through Immunisation" ...

NACCHO selects 5 local health departments as mentors and 11 as mentees for the 2025 Wastewater Monitoring Mentorship Program.

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) yesterday released its 2024 Forces of Change Survey ...

Overall, malaria and depression and anxiety saw the biggest increases in the first post-pandemic year.

Cambodia's health ministry today announced another human H5N1 avian flu case of the year, involving a 5-year-old boy from ...

Vaccine supply shortage comes at a bad time, as African countries make headway with their outbreaks and have seen good uptake ...

Two new observational studies highlight the outsized burden of cancer associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) among both ...

Shionogi will pay BioVersys $6.3 million for developing BV500, BioVersys's drug candidate for non-tuberculous mycobacteria.