A panel of experts that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week. The Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

Sophie Ward, 20, died after being discharged from hospital the day before, with doctors initially dismissing her mothers ...

An inquest has heard how Sophie Ward was discharged from hospital, but her condition worsened before she passed away the ...

A MUM has described how her daughter was discharged from hospital with dehydration – just hours before blood started to “ooze ...

A young woman described by family as a 'happy, outgoing' person died with ‘blood oozing from her eyes’ after being told she ...

Background The gold standard for diagnosis of meningitis is the isolation of a pathogen from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by culture or PCR. However, treatment is routinely commenced based on CSF ...

Luna Bioscience moves ahead with work on a vaccine to prevent a deadly infection that spreads from animals to humans, as anxiety mounts in state research labs.

If this shows that you are at high risk of lung cancer, you will be offered a low dose CT scan of the lungs. We don't have all the details on how lung screening will work yet. For example, we don't ...

MEDLINE, Embase and Global Health databases were searched to identify studies that reported invasive bacterial infections in infants using MeSH terms for bacteremia, sepsis or bacterial meningitis and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — A number of Ohio State University students may have been exposed to meningitis, prompting swift action from the university and Columbus Public Health. The university ...

Meningitis vaccines will be available at 80 designated centres across the country, including several hospitals, and recipients will be provided with certificates upon getting the shot. The ...