A new vaccine is using special DNA technology that may help prevent lung cancer.
Child mortality numbers have dipped below 5 million, with some countries reducing their numbers by more than 75%, following vaccination efforts, improved nutrition, and access to antibiotics.
A mid-term evaluation of a global ten-year strategy reveals that much progress has been made toward the elimination of yellow fever epidemics.
The World Health Organization has officially declared Cape Verde malaria-free, making it the third African country - second Sub-Saharan - with that status.
In a breakthrough study, researchers have found a way of potentially making birds resistant to the avian flu.
Four more European countries have met hepatitis B control targets set by the World Health Organization, bringing the region closer to eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat.
The most extensive vaccination campaign against canine rabies is underway in Cambodia.
Since 2022, four mobile health caravans have been traveling through remote, underserved locations in the Western Balkans, ensuring that vulnerable populations have access to the COVID-19 vaccination.
The New York pharma giant Pfizer announced it would provide drugs at manufacturing cost, to the world's poorest countries.
Cancer vaccines - both those that destroy cancer cells as well as those that prevent someone from developing cancer altogether - are in the works, and making progress.