Meg Draper was enjoying the social side of student life - within weeks she had died from meningitis.

MARYVILLE, Mo. -- Health officials at Northwest Missouri State University report a surge of student interest in the meningitis vaccine after a classmate died of a rare bacterial infection on ...

A mother is on a mission to get a very important health message out to the medical community, parents, and especially young adults, and teens. Her passion earned her a spot on a task force with the ...

The Massachusetts legislature is considering a bill which will require college students to either take the vaccine for meningococcal meningitis or sign a waiver that acknowledges the choice not to be ...

Reports of paralysis in teenagers — including an Arizona youth — who got the new meningitis vaccine are raising alarms about the shot's safety. Federal health investigators have not confirmed the new ...

(AP)—A U.S. panel on Thursday recommended that two new meningitis vaccines only be used for rare outbreaks, resisting tearful pleas to give it routinely to teens and college students.

Now more available, shot is being recommended by health experts for all youths 11-18. Health experts are expanding the call for a meningitis vaccine for youths now that supplies are more readily ...

LONDON -- Britain says it will become the first country to offer all babies a vaccine for potentially fatal meningitis B after it reached a price deal with GlaxoSmithKline PLC. Government health ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger had the lowest number of meningitis A cases in an epidemic season this year after the introduction of a cheap vaccine designed for Africa, World Health ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis AG's Bexsero vaccine helps protect toddlers against the most common cause of meningitis when used as a booster, the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday, giving its meningitis ...