Intravenous BCG vaccine with a built-in kill-switch was found to be at least as effective as regular tuberculosis vaccine in ...

A new tuberculosis vaccine that self-destructs to enhance safety has shown promising results in macaque monkeys, providing ...

A self-destructing vaccine administered intravenously provides additional safety and protection against tuberculosis (TB) in ...

Pfizer's experimental treatment for a type of bladder cancer significantly improved the time that patients remained free of ...

A self-destructing vaccine administered intravenously provides additional safety and protection against tuberculosis (TB ...

Indeed, the BCG vaccine was invented whether the leprosy world asked for it or not; and it has not been necessary to consider the need for neonatal BCG vaccination to prevent leprosy, or to ...

Academic researchers in Massachusetts believe the standard BCG (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) vaccine could have a remarkable second use: a treatment to reverse advanced type 1 diabetes. The cause of ...

A new study published in the Journal of Internal Medicine showed that it may be possible to prevent the formation of ...

While unvaccinated macaque monkeys exhibited signs of severe lung inflammation and disease following the Mycobacterium  tuberculosis infection (warm colors indicate inflammation and disease, bottom ...

Health experts in Kenya have raised an alarm over the severe shortage of Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the life-saving ...

In another example, the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine lowers the risk of various respiratory infections by 18%. What’s more, the research on BCG in bladder cancer had a surprising side ...