In the waning days of the Biden administration, the Labor Department added ovarian, uterine, cervical, and breast cancer coverage for wildland firefighters. It’s unclear whether the new protections ...

The eradication of polio as a global health threat may be delayed unless U.S. funding cuts – potentially totaling hundreds of ...

On Long Island, rates for the combined 7-vaccine series remain alarmingly low among children between 24 and 35 months old.

Additionally, a targeted campaign in Quetta Division and Karachi took place from February 20 to 28, 2025, where around 900,000 children received both injectable and oral polio vaccines for an ...

“Officials associated with polio eradication programme in the province are making their all-out efforts to wipe out the vaccine-preventable childhood ailment through vaccination, the only way to ...

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Polio is a paralysing disease that has no cure and only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can ...

Health workers safety was compromised with the news of a fake vaccine campaign even though it had nothing to do with polio work. Secondly, the task of polio eradication was taken away from health ...

Pakistan Reports 2 New Polio Cases of the Year Despite Anti-Polio Drives ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has reported two new cases of polio in its southern and eastern provinces, health officials ...

A polio vaccination drive in Gaza reached more than 600,000 children, the head of the World Health Organization announced ...

Escorted by police, polio teams go door-to-door to administer the oral vaccine, though they are often attacked by militants who falsely claim that vaccination efforts are part of a Western plot to ...

The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the Natio­nal Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of cases in Kambar, Sindh, and Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab. “This is the ...