Meg Draper was 18 and had joined swimming and netball teams, but died in October from meningococcal type B meningitis (MenB) ...

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 ...

(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.

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 ...

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 ...

In addition to cancer, a growing body of research has shown that vaccines can reduce the risk of developing dementia and heart conditions.

The odds of contracting meningitis are about the same as getting struck by lightning, but the Centers for Disease Control and the American College Health Association think those odds are too great.

Princeton University is trying to stop an outbreak of an unusual form of bacterial meningitis, which has already struck seven students.... Princeton To Use New Meningitis Vaccine To Stem Campus ...

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 ...