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I have worked in pediatric emergency departments for the past 35 years—since before the innovative conjugate vaccines against ...

Receiving a single dose of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine protects against the complications of meningitis as the vaccine provides five-year protection. Individuals who have received the vaccine ...

MUSCAT: Citizens and residents planning to perform Umrah rituals must take the quadrivalent meningitis vaccine, the Ministry of Health said. They must take it at least 10 days before travelling to ...

SAINT JOHN, Ind. - A 40-year-old man who was fatally shot during an altercation with a St. John police officer on Wednesday has been identified. What we know: At approximately 11:30 a.m., St. John ...

Noah Scurry, a member of the Samuel Fels basketball team, was shot multiple times on the morning of Jan. 14 Natasha Dye is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE covering sports. Her previous work appears ...

The specialist stressed the importance of vaccination in preventing meningitis, a serious condition caused by inflammation of the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms ...

Update: Police say the boy who was shot later died at the hospital. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A teenager is facing charges after he told police he accidentally shot his brother in the face while they ...

A man is recovering in the hospital after bravely acting as a human shield for his 21-year-old girlfriend during a near-fatal carjacking in Washington, D.C. The couple was sitting in their car in ...

The funds add to a $3.7 million grant from CEPI secured earlier this month. The company continues to work toward an mRNA-based broad-protecting flu vaccine without needles. Other grants include $2 ...

A teenage boy who was a top student and basketball player was shot and killed in the alleyway behind his North Philadelphia rowhome as he was getting into the car with his mom Tuesday morning ...

In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West. By Apoorva Mandavilli Most American ...