Researchers who have harnessed the body’s immune system to fight cancer have found a way to make the approach work even better, using an ordinary tetanus vaccine. They used their double-vaccine ...

Tetanus and diphtheria vaccines are unusual because many countries, including the US and Italy, recommend routine boosters in adults every 10 years — a policy not applied to any other childhood ...

DURING the last few years a considerable amount of additional information regarding the effectiveness and hazards of active immunization against tetanus has become available. The war, with its many ...

ALTHOUGH various previous observations, chiefly by French, American and Canadian investigators, had indicated that tetanus toxoid immunization was a powerful tool in the prevention of tetanus, it was ...

The first thought most people likely have when they step on a dirty nail in rotting wood or slice open their hand on scrap metal is a string of colorful expletives as searing pain shoots through their ...

In another test, they swapped the tetanus toxin for diphtheria, and found it also generated a powerful immune response in mice. This could end up being a brand new delivery method for many types of ...

Every doctor wants to see a smile on a patient’s face, but there is one that no doctor ever wants to see: risus sardonicus, sometimes known as the sardonic grin or the devil’s smile, the cruel mark of ...

People caught up in the tragedy of Hurricane Harvey face uncertainty and stress. But one thing most of them don’t have to worry about right now is whether they need a tetanus shot. Scattered social ...