The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for scurvy, may have ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly's Omvoh (mirikizumab-mrkz) for the treatment of moderately to ...

Sierra Leone has declared a public health emergency after two cases of mpox were reported. The West African country’s health minister announced the move on Monday after the second case of the deadly ...

Bill Foege — the man behind smallpox eradication — reflects on politics and public health as Trump prepares to take office.

As an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, he was actively involved in directing smallpox eradication programs in Nigeria (66-70), Bangladesh (72-76), and Somalia (77). He is a ...

The mysteriously-named Disease X has the potential to become ... With a high uptake, we could literally eradicate it from the planet, like smallpox. A lower uptake, partly due to too much covid ...

Heavy Industries Minister H D Kumaraswamy praised both companies' progress, hailing Tata Motors and M&M for developing this capability. The minister exuded confidence that more applicants would take ...

and cowpox and to treat complications following smallpox vaccination. Earlier this year, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced topline ...

Only one human disease — smallpox — has been eradicated by human efforts. Guinea worm disease could become the second, though it may take years and new methods to push the effort across the ...

"President Carter, with a political background, was able to do far more in global health than we could do alone," said Dr. William Foege, who led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's smallpox ...

In early December, international alarm bells went off because of a mysterious disease circulating in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and ...

(AP Video: Sam Mednick) Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter poses for photographers with a water pipe filter, that is used to combat guinea worm disease, during a news conference to mark the launch of ...