Under the new leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is expected to look into a long-debunked connection between ...

Edward Jenner creates one of the world's first vaccines using the pus from a cowpox blister. Now hold your arm out, this won't hurt at all!

The film highlights the contributions of five pivotal figures in the field of medicine known as Health Heroes. Anthony Von Leeuwenhoek, in the 17th century, was the first to observe bacteria using a ...

Written by a French-speaking immunologist and translated into English, the book deals less with the eradication of smallpox than Jenner's contributions to the development of vaccination and the ...

Ever since Edward Jenner discovered the smallpox vaccine two centuries ago, immunization efforts have almost exclusively focused on activating the immune system. But when it comes to multiple ...

In a now-famous 1796 experiment, Jenner scratched the arm of eight-year-old James Phipps, infecting the boy with cowpox pus taken from a milkmaid carrying the virus. Two months later, he scratched ...

It was quite a victory, then, when English physician Edward Jenner developed an inoculation ... He called his new procedure vaccination, after vacca, which is Latin for cow. A vaccine works ...

A section of cow horn, inscribed 'G C Jenner, 1825'; possibly a relic of a cow called 'Blossom' - the source of the first vaccination fluid. 'G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew ...

A section of cow horn, inscribed 'G C Jenner, 1825'; possibly a relic of a cow called 'Blossom' - the source of the first vaccination fluid. 'G C' is Edward Jenner's (1749-1823) nephew ...

Auditions have been announced for an outdoor play about a Gloucestershire doctor. The Stroud based Cotswold Players are preparing for their new production, Pox, a story about Edward Jenner, the ...