Federal Health advisers are giving a thumbs up to a vaccine that would cut down the number of shots kids have to have. The so-called five-in-one vaccine would prevent diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and a bacterial infection that can cause meningitis, pneumonia and arthritis.

The OK means the Food and Drug Administration will likely approve the vaccine, called Pentacel. It would be given in four doses. The advisers also recommended follow-up studies on the vaccine

The world's largest charity has made another stunning donation in the field of medical research and funding. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Monday a grant of $83 million dollars to fight malaria which kills an estimated one million people every year.

The money is being slated for use in discovering stronger vaccinations, providing more vaccinations on a per area basis and funding research to help awareness and containment. All totaled, the Gates Foundation has already pledged around $765 million dollars to fight malaria alone

In an effort to eliminate the re-emergence of polio, 22 million children under the age of five will be immunized in Bangladesh.

The day will be the first round of the 14th National Immunization Days (NIDs). The second round of the NIDs will be conducted on December 23

Religious officials and rock stars will help a campaign that proposes to save about 10 million children in poor countries.

Pope Benedict was one of the first to donate money that will provide 500 million children with vaccine by 2015

A new study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota has reveled that a family of viruses that cause a range of ills from the common cold to polio may be responsible for cognitive impairment later in life. The study suggests that the infections caused by picornavirus family members induce memory loss that accumulate over a lifetime and eventually lead to detectable cognitive deficit.

"We think picornavirus family members cross into the brain and cause a variety of brain injuries. For example, the polio virus can cause paralysis," Charles Howe, lead author of the study told Reuters