The approach fuses two tuberculosis genes with the goal of directing the immune system to fight drug-tolerant bacterial ...

In a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns ...

A new experimental vaccine takes aim at one of tuberculosis’s most stubborn defenses: the ability of bacteria to persist ...

Researchers developed an intranasal DNA fusion vaccine targeting drug-tolerant tuberculosis persisters. In preclinical models ...

Most people think of vaccines as a way to prevent infections, but some also play a powerful role in lowering your risk of cancer by targeting viruses that can trigger it. The HPV (human papillomavirus ...

The relatively new mRNA vaccines, which gained significant recognition during the coronavirus pandemic, are now being explored as potential cancer therapies. However, there is still no clinical ...

Imagine if there were a vaccine for breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, uterine cancer, ovarian cancer or any of the most well-known cancers that sicken and kill so many people. Every year, ...

Vaccines don’t just shield you from specific infectious diseases or help make symptoms less severe if you get sick but can also prevent common chronic illnesses, including some cancers, according to ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dementia. Over the past several ...

On National Vaccination Day, doctors explain how the HPV vaccine can prevent cervical cancer, why India's nationwide HPV ...