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De Niro offs a documentary by a former British medical researcher about a link between vaccines and autism from Tribeca Film Festival.

• 28 марта 2016, 14:07

Chief Kazakh Sanitary Doctor and Vice-Minister of Health and Social Development declare preliminary causes of the negative reactions to the measles vaccination conducted in February.

• 29 апреля 2015, 00:13

Vaccination against measles in Kazakhstan went terribly wrong when dozens of teenagers were hospitalized in fever and unconscious to local hospitals.

• 24 февраля 2015, 21:00

Kazakh scientist says that domestic specialists have the potential to develop a vaccine against deadly Ebola virus and are already working on vaccines against other types of deseases.

• 15 октября 2014, 19:42

Sierra Leone was preparing for an unprecedented three-day nationwide shutdown to contain the deadly spread of the Ebola virus.

• 19 сентября 2014, 15:23

A US-based Japanese scientist said he has succeeded in engineering a version of the so-called swine flu virus that would be able to evade the human immune system.

• 03 июля 2014, 10:50

Every day there are more and more parents refusing to get their children vaccinated for religious reasons.

• 27 марта 2014, 16:15

Chinese state-run media and Internet users demanded action Wednesday after the deaths of at least seven babies since November following their vaccinations against hepatitis B.

• 26 декабря 2013, 10:37

The flu vaccine is generally less effective for men than for women, scientists said in a study Monday, tracing the effect to higher levels of testosterone that curb the immune response.

• 24 декабря 2013, 16:06

A single dose -- rather than the recommended three -- of a vaccine against the sexually transmitted disease HPV may be enough to ward off cervical cancer.

• 04 ноября 2013, 17:27

US scientists seeking to unravel the mysteries of HIV have made an important breakthrough after capturing the clearest image yet of a protein which allows the deadly virus to attack human immune cells, new research showed Tuesday.

• 02 ноября 2013, 14:05

British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said on Tuesday it hoped to get the green light for a prototype vaccine against malaria after trials showed it offered children a partial shield against the disease.

• 08 октября 2013, 12:12

A new vaccine being rolled out in the "meningitis belt" that stretches across north-central Africa has reduced cases of the potentially fatal disease by 94 percent.

• 12 сентября 2013, 16:09

Brazilian scientists have developed an HIV vaccine and plan to begin testing on monkeys later this year.

• 06 августа 2013, 13:25

Israel on Monday launches a mass campaign in the south of the country to vaccinate 200,000 children up to nine years old against polio.

• 05 августа 2013, 14:21

Researchers in China said Wednesday a trial vaccine provided "significant" protection against a virus that can cause potentially deadly hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in children.

• 29 мая 2013, 18:25

England aims to inject a million youngsters with measles vaccine following a surge in cases of the potentially fatal disease.

• 25 апреля 2013, 16:38

Developing a vaccine for the H7N9 strain of bird flu that has killed 10 people in eastern China could take "many months".

• 12 апреля 2013, 16:30

US health authorities said Thursday they are liaising with domestic and international partners to develop a vaccine for the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed five people in China.

• 05 апреля 2013, 13:14

A growing number of US parents oppose doctors' recommendations to vaccinate teenage girls against human papillomavirus (HPV), the main cause of cervical cancer.

• 18 марта 2013, 11:59