University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers helped conduct an important new global health study that found a vaccine that protects against five strains of meningitis prevalent in sub ...

The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare received over one million pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile this week to combat the ...

The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders has estimated that up to 80 percent of meningitis patients may die without early access to treatment. This statement comes as the ...

The research, published today in The Lancet Global Health, are together the largest analysis of febrile non-traumatic coma in children on the African continent to date. Fever and coma is a common ...

Ms. Isioma Jessica Nwayor graduated in 2019 as the first student to be named the best graduating student from the Faculty of Social Sciences at Obafemi Awolowo University. Her research, published as ...

For HIV-positive adults with tuberculous meningitis, adjunctive dexamethasone does not confer a benefit with respect to survival, according to a study published in the Oct. 12 issue of the New England ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has cautioned residents, particularly those in the country's meningitis belt, to remain vigilant for possible outbreaks of meningitis during the current dry and dusty ...