UNICEF won't stop until every child is protected against polio and other vaccine-preventable disease. Reaching children with ...

Polio has been a common childhood vaccine since the 1950s, but do adults need a polio booster? Infectious disease experts ...

While in 2020 Nigeria had been declared Polio free, cases have not fully vanished. New cases have been reported in Nigeria.

A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, with a three-year survival rate ...

Head of UNICEF Kaduna Field Office, Dr Luqman Ahmed, disclosed this on Friday during a Media Dialogue, Orientation and ...

NEW YORK--Debbie Puffer, 61, has been a patient at Duke University since 2014 when doctors began treating her deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, with a most unlikely weapon: poliovirus. At first, she ...

Two new poliovirus cases have been identified in Pakistan's Sindh province, raising nationwide figures to 29 this year. The ...

One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically ...

A technique developed several years ago at Duke University involving an engineered hybrid of poliovirus and rhinovirus has shown great promise in treating a lethal form of brain cancer. A new study ...

Health authorities in the U.K. are urging residents to get vaccinated against poliovirus after the virus was found in sewage samples in London. The virus was detected as part of routine surveillance, ...

Motor-nerve cells in the spinal cord, which carry signals from the brain to muscles and glands, don’t regenerate once injured—with long-term consequences for accident victims. If scientists could ...

The cause of one notorious childhood disease, poliovirus, could be used to treat the ongoing threat of another childhood disease, neuroblastoma. In the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, researchers ...