A lot of people are staunchly pro-vaccines, some are militant anti-vaxxers and much of the population is wondering what all the fuss is about. If you already have a firm viewpoint on the question of ...

Our Town Columnist and historian Brian Keller also revisits the increasing use of school buses and new limitations to city ...

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” The words are Ecclesiastes 1:9 – among my ...

Back in ancient times, the world of medicine was filled with odd remedies and strange cures that claimed to tackle […] ...

The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

London's history is pockmarked with death and disease, from the infamous Great Plague of the 1600s to the devastating impacts of smallpox in the 18th Century. Alongside the well-known health disasters ...

When a smallpox epidemic struck Vancouver Island in 1862, colonial authorities set in motion a plan that led to the deaths of ...

Smallpox was eradicated worldwide in the late ... after a pilgrim returning to Yugoslavia from Mecca infected 175 people. • Doctors waged a vaccination campaign to wipe out smallpox which ...

Before the smallpox vaccine, many people bore deep scars on their faces and bodies (if they survived at all). And those who grew up before the polio vaccine was available have memories of children ...

The University of Minnesota is going to buy an “electric brain” that can solve mathematical problems too heavy for human gray ...

There are currently no measles cases in Waterloo region, but public health is reminding people to "remain vigilant" to ...