Imagine European labs turning into the scene of a major medical mishap. It’s like a step back to the days of bloodletting. Do you recall when the UK vaccinated 30% of its people? In contrast, the EU ...

Considered by public health officials to be one of the greatest success stories in recent history, the polio vaccine is currently the subject of a petition by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s lawyer to ...

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with virologist Dr. Thomas Geisbert about the vaccine used in the Ebola outbreak of 2014 and the challenges for developing a vaccine for this current health emergency.

Reliable data from many sources prove that vaccines are highly effective despite some negative side effects. According to The Lancet, a well-recognized peer-reviewed British medical journal, vaccines ...

Medically reviewed by Erika Prouty, PharmDMedically reviewed by Erika Prouty, PharmD The anthrax vaccine is given to select U ...

Jonas Salk, an epidemiologist who developed the polio vaccine in the 1950s. Prior to official vaccine trials, Salk tested the vaccine on himself and his family in 1953. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia ...

Often called the Speckled monster, Smallpox was one of the most terrifying diseases known to humanity. In 18th-century Europe alone, the disease killed an estimated 400,000 people every year, with a ...