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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

CHICAGO, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A new type of meningitis vaccine boosted the immunity of infants as young as six months, offering a potential new weapon against this deadly disease, British and Canadian ...