Vaccines

U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five other states with active outbreaks. Texas grew by another 60 cases.

Dr. Diego Hijano, a pediatric infectious disease expert from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, answers your questions on how the MMR vaccine can protect your kids from the measles.

Under Kennedy’s leadership, HHS has seen mass firings across health agencies, including staff responsible for outbreak response and vaccine access.

It’s been shown that reactivation of the chickenpox virus can lead to the accumulation of aberrant proteins associated with Alzheimer’s.

Measles vaccination rates for young children may be far lower than publicly reported, a troubling development that could mean the United States is closer than expected to losing its “elimination status” for the extremely contagious disease. “We are experiencing an extremely concerning decline in measles vaccination in the very group most vulnerable to the disease,” said Benjamin Rader, a computational epidemiologist at Boston...

The CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a discredited researcher with a history of spreading misinformation that vaccines cause autism, according to two sources familiar with the plan.

The death of a child in Texas, the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015, is prompting calls for vaccination from health officials

A child’s death in Texas has prompted a nationwide call for children to be vaccinated against the disease. 

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Newly-appointed Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. says the ongoing measles outbreak is a call to action. 

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There are a lot of questions about the efficacy of the measles vaccine and whether some should get a booster or be revaccinated. We’ve got answers.

The Mennonite population is being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas. Here’s a closer look at the Anabaptist family of churches and some of their varying pratices, cultures and traditions.

Health officials in Lubbock, Texas, held a press conference on Wednesday following confirmation of the first death related to the current measles outbreak.

The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

A controversial bill, recently passed favorably out of committee, is raising alarm among New Hampshire doctors who warn it could jeopardize patient access to critical vaccines and burden health care providers.

A group of New Hampshire Republicans are trying to eliminate a nonprofit that works within the state to provide free vaccines to families, and the only Republican doctor in the state’s Legislature was kicked off a health committee one day before the proposal was voted favorably out of committee. ...

Proponents say the bill would save taxpayer money and enhance transparency, while...

An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.

A vaccine for poultry was just approved. Will we need a bird flu vaccine for humans, too?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s long record of doubting the safety of childhood vaccinations persisted as a flash point for him Thursday in a confirmation hearing.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. questioned RFK Jr. about the infant onesies once sold by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit Kennedy founded, in his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots.