The vaccine committee voted Thursday to change recommendations for the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella vaccine ...

Public health advocates hoped that the measles outbreak might persuade the reluctant to get shots. That has not turned out to ...

A generation ago, infectious childhood diseases were nearly wiped out in the U.S., thanks to immunization programs. In the most comprehensive data investigation of its kind, we show how that ...

There is growing pressure from parents and the Trump administration for exemptions to be expanded. The U.S. Supreme Court ...

Members of the public may have been exposed if they were in Terminal 5 of O’Hare International Airport between about 7:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Sept. 11.

As they prepared to leave their home early Saturday, Nelson grabbed the polio insurance policy he’d purchased. The year was ...

Falling vaccination rates among U.S. children may make local outbreaks of highly contagious measles cases increasingly common ...

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy (R) wrote to HHS Secretary RFK Jr., urging his support of the whooping cough vaccine amid a nationwide outbreak.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health this week reported the death of a school-aged child due to a rare ...

The county health department said the death is a "painful reminder" of how dangerous measles can be in unvaccinated people.