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 ...

In 2015, a team of researchers at Duke University was launched into the spotlight by CBS news show 60 Minutes, which devoted a two-part segment to research aimed at turning poliovirus into a treatment ...

An inactivated form of the poliovirus used to treat recurrent brain tumors is showing what researchers called encouraging long-term survival in a Phase 1 clinical trial published Tuesday. The authors ...

As many as 40 environmental samples from all four provinces and the federal capital were found positive for the polio virus during the month of December, Dawn reported, citing an official of the polio ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

"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.

Poliovirus has been detected in sewage samples from 40 districts across Pakistan, according to test results from the Regional ...

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, ...

Polio was a devastating disease before the development of the polio vaccine. But now, this once-feared virus might help treat another deadly illness — brain cancer. In a new study, some patients who ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 168, No. 5 (Nov., 1993), pp. 1105-1109 (5 pages) Fecal shedding of virulent revertant polioviruses was examined in isolates from infants previously immunized ...