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 ...

Although it is often thought of as a disease from the past, the CDC is warning travelers to be on alert for this serious ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you get when you cross a poliovirus with the virus that causes the common cold? An efficient mechanism for killing brain tumors, say scientists at Duke University, who have successfully used ...

Polio-Free Afghanistan says a new nationwide vaccination campaign will begin next week to protect children, as the country ...

In 2015, a team of researchers at Duke University was launched into the spotlight by CBS news show 60 Minutes, which devoted a two-part segment to research aimed at turning poliovirus into a treatment ...

A third county in New York with a low vaccination rate has detected poliovirus in its wastewater, suggesting that spread of the dangerous virus is expanding, which continues to pose a significant ...

A Somali baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. AP A health official administers a polio vaccine to a child at a camp for people displaced by ...

The sewage sample in Brooklyn and Queens that tested positive is genetically linked to the virus that paralyzed an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County over the summer. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has ...

Poliovirus has been genetically modified so that it can be used in vaccines without the risk of spreading the disease. Inactivated polio vaccine is currently made (pictured) using highly infectious ...

Health authorities in the U.K. are urging residents to get vaccinated against poliovirus after the virus was found in sewage samples in London. The virus was detected as part of routine surveillance, ...