One of the world's most dreaded viruses has been turned into a treatment to fight deadly brain tumors. Survival was better than expected for patients in a small study who were given genetically ...

A genetically modified poliovirus therapy developed at Duke Cancer Institute shows significantly improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, with a three-year survival rate ...

A technique developed several years ago at Duke University involving an engineered hybrid of poliovirus and rhinovirus has shown great promise in treating a lethal form of brain cancer. A new study ...

The cause of one notorious childhood disease, poliovirus, could be used to treat the ongoing threat of another childhood disease, neuroblastoma. In the March 15 issue of Cancer Research, researchers ...

NEW YORK--Debbie Puffer, 61, has been a patient at Duke University since 2014 when doctors began treating her deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma, with a most unlikely weapon: poliovirus. At first, she ...

Health authorities have warned that Karachi has overtaken southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as Pakistan’s most potent source of ...

"Oncolytic virus therapy" uses human viruses to fight cancer. Glioblastoma is a type of brain cancer that has recently been quite visible in the media after Sen. John McCain was treated for it.

Motor-nerve cells in the spinal cord, which carry signals from the brain to muscles and glands, don’t regenerate once injured—with long-term consequences for accident victims. If scientists could ...

Health authorities in the U.K. are urging residents to get vaccinated against poliovirus after the virus was found in sewage samples in London. The virus was detected as part of routine surveillance, ...

JOHANNESBURG/LONDON - Health officials in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have detected cases of vaccine-derived poliovirus, the World Health Organization and Global Polio ...

QUETTA: An 18-month-old toddler from Balochistan's Qilla Abdullah district was Tuesday diagnosed with poliovirus, the provincial health department told Geo News. According to the Balochistan's health ...