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

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

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

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

Ship attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea with only 6 of 25 aboard found We Tasted 11 Brands of Vanilla Ice ...

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, ...

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

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) recently caused a 2-month-old girl in Pennsylvania to suffer severe hearing loss after it was passed to her in the womb. While the virus can exist in a person for life without ...

The virus that causes oral herpes is present in about 67 percent of people. According to new research, oral herpes could have ties to Alzheimer's disease.

Over 800 million people have genital herpes — and in many cases the virus can flare up over a person's lifetime, causing painful symptoms. So why doesn't the world pay more attention?

Canine herpes virus (CHV) is a serious and often fatal viral disease in puppies. In adult dogs, it can cause eye disease, an upper respiratory infection, and inflammation in the vagina or foreskin ...