Polio vaccine may cause rise in cancer risk - A new report by the Institute of Medicine’s Immunisation Safety Review Committee has reviewed studies into the carcinogenic potential of SV40-contamin...

Cancer linked to contaminated polio vaccine - The sudden rise in the number of deaths from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma may be linked to the polio vaccine given to children in the USA until 1963.

Polio vaccine strikes two - A second case of a relative contracting polio from a recently vaccinated child has followed within two month of the first. ...

Vaccine doubts raised after polio outbreak - A study of a l988 polio outbreak in Israel has divided experts on the efficacy of current vaccination programmes and left the rest of us more confused...

Vaccine update: hiv, polio, flu - Three vaccines against HIV infection are to be tested on children in the US. Ninety healthy HIV infected children aged between 1 month and 12 years a...

Shingles - Then there was the reader whose 85-year-old cousin has suffered from shingles for four years.

Shingles - A woman has shingles and is left with unbearable dagger-like pain. She has been to the doctor and the pain clinic, but nothing helps. Can readers sugg...

Shingles (herpes zoster) - Shingles, an acute infection caused by varicella zoster (chickenpox) virus (VZV), can be an excruciating condition with painful skin blisters, general...