A cancer-killing virus could soon be approved for use after shrinking tumours in a third of people with late-stage melanoma ...

Scientists are developing all sorts of potential new treatments to tackle the most difficult cancer cases—including some that ...

Scientists have hijacked the herpes virus and turned it into a cancer-busting ally. A decade after the United States Food and ...

The herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), which affects almost two‑thirds of the world's population and is generally ...

One-in-six patients treated with the modified virus as part of a clinical trial saw their tumors disappear completely.

What the shingles vaccine does is it dampens reactivations of latent viruses in a way that may be protecting other parts of your body,” Martin said. Including, it seems, the brain. The measles, mumps ...

University of Southern California researchers have found a way to rebrand this oft-embarrassing sore subject by genetically modifying HSV-1 and administering it to patients with treatment-resistant, ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to ...

Patients with inflammatory arthritis would benefit from vaccination against herpes zoster, with the Shingrix vaccine showing a crude effectiveness of 50%.

Scientists have discovered a stealthy mechanism that cytomegalovirus (CMV)—the leading infectious cause of birth defects in ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

If you’ve been exposed to the herpes virus, it can take anywhere from 2 to 10 days for symptoms to appear and for the virus to be detected on a test. Learn more.