Hospitals across the country are now facing a shortage of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects newborns ...

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

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 ...

The bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, initially developed to provide protection against TB, also protects against leprosy; and the magnitude of this effect varies. Previous meta-analyses ...

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

Childhood vaccination is a success story. But concerns around vaccines endure. Especially, it seems, among the individuals ...

The country is bracing for great adversity in the health sector with hospitals calling for urgent measures to curb the ...

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 ...

Mumbai: After several months of delay, Mumbai is finally set to begin vaccinating the high-risk adult population with the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis (TB). There is much to catch up on ...

On Monday, the BMC started the much-delayed pilot project to provide the anti-tuberculosis (TB) BCG vaccine to the high-risk adult population from 12 wards of the city. In the rest of the state ...

Finally, we found a statistically significant higher protective effect of the BCG vaccination if studies were conducted among household contacts instead of the general population, even after ...