Meningitis Stories
- A vaccine developed during a meningitis outbreak showed promise in treating patients with gonorrhea.
- When our white blood cells detect a fungus, they attach to it in large numbers and promptly escort it out.
- Should meningitis B vaccines be required for children and teens across the U.S.?
- Canadian parents are charged with neglecting their son's poor health and attempting to treat his meningitis with naturopathic remedies.
- Chemotherapy drugs packaged in single-dose vials result in discarded drugs costing nearly $3 billion each year in the United States.
- Bacterial meningitis has tragically claimed another life, and an inquest has been made about the incident.
- A Scottish nurse who recovered from Ebola in January is now back in the hospital due to unforeseen complications from her original infection.
- Using a transparent fish, researchers are understanding how meningitis moves through the brain and how to stop it from becoming deadly.
- After visiting his daughter at the University of Oregon, a man became the seventh person on campus to contract a potentially deadly meningitis infection.
- A Virginia high school senior's mysterious sudden death has been attributed to a bacterial meningitis infection.
- After a long stand-off with Novartis over its price point for a meningitis B vaccine, the UK government has reached a deal with the vaccine's new owners GlaxoSmithKline.
- A bacterial infection related to meningitis is to blame for the death of a University of Oregon student-athlete who was found unresponsive in her dorm room earlier this week.