International leaders and philanthropists, including Bill Gates, announced $1.9 billion Monday in funding to advance polio ...

One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically ...

Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, with a three-year survival rate ...

Interactions among viruses can help them succeed inside their hosts or impart vulnerabilities that make them easier to treat.

An inactivated form of the poliovirus used to treat recurrent brain tumors is showing what researchers called encouraging long-term survival in a Phase 1 clinical trial published Tuesday. The authors ...

The cause of one notorious childhood disease, poliovirus, could be used to treat the ongoing threat of another childhood disease, neuroblastoma. In the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, researchers ...

A technique developed several years ago at Duke University involving an engineered hybrid of poliovirus and rhinovirus has shown great promise in treating a lethal form of brain cancer. A new study ...

An outbreak emerged in the country's conservative Aceh province, prompted by a dangerous combination of consistently low routine immunization and unhealthy environmental conditions. In 2021, only 50.9 ...

Pakistan will launch its final nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of 2025 from December 15, targeting 45 million ...

The polio eradication campaign initiated in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO) led to an impressive decline in cases of paralytic poliomyelitis around the world. The eradication strategy ...

"Oncolytic virus therapy" uses human viruses to fight cancer. Glioblastoma is a type of brain cancer that has recently been quite visible in the media after Sen. John McCain was treated for it.