Infection with the influenza virus can have a serious effect on the health of people of all ages,...

At the World Health Assembly in May 1980, the World Health Organization declared the world free o...

From 1962 to 1971, US military forces sprayed more than 19 million gallons of herbicides over Vie...

Risk Communication and Vaccination

Integration of complementary and alternative medicine therapies (CAM) with conventional medicine ...

Each year it is estimated that approximately 40,000 people in the U.S. are newly infected with HI...

December 13, 2002, the president of the United States announced that smallpox vaccination would b...

On November 6, 1995, the Institute of Medicine's Vaccine Safety Forum convened a workshop on dete...

Common diseases cost the developing world an enormous amount in terms of human life, health, and ...

Immunization is widely regarded as one of the most effective and beneficial tools for protecting ...