Parents who believe, or lean toward believing, false claims about the measles vaccine say they delayed or skipped some ...

On the heels of measles cases popping up in North Dakota, local health officials stress the importance and safety of immunizations for young children. The state Health and Human Services Department ...

The northern Americas are at “high” risk of measles compared with a “moderate” risk globally, according to the WHO.

In just two months as the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made sweeping changes to the Department of Health and Human Services — and its priorities.

As a doctor and retired Republican congressman, I urge our leaders to double down on life-saving preventive medicine.

As a pediatrician, I recall the misery of patients, the preventable deaths and the unlearned lesson: We need more vaccination ...

The most common side effects are mild: a sore arm ... them is a tactic that anti-vaccine advocates have used to undermine ...

"There really shouldn't be any cases at this point, because these diseases are preventable," said epidemiologist Mathew Kiang ...

Experts say the safest way to maintain herd immunity is through vaccination due to the potentially severe effects of a measles infection. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), measles ...

The administration’s “pronatalist” position is substantially at odds with a range of policy decisions that will cause kids to ...

When the virus was endemic, it spread in a world very different from today’s.