Vaccine exemptions overall are also on the rise. Almost 1,800 students in Allegheny County submitted medical, religious or ...

A new study suggests that the shingles vaccine may help prevent dementia by reducing the risk of varicella-zoster virus ...

When most people think of chickenpox, they picture itchy red blisters on kids missing school. But here’s the surprising part: ...

There are few more divisive issues in medicine today than the topic of vaccines. Until COVID, most Americans were glad to have their children vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, polio, HepB, ...

Every year, this illness makes the rounds in schools, playgrounds and day cares. This time, some parents and pediatricians ...

Years after the reign of Warren Jeffs, the Short Creek community on the Utah-Arizona border is focused on rebuilding. Missed vaccines were low on the list of priorities, until now.

Florida’s announcement that it would scrap public school vaccine mandates next year hit Elizabeth particularly hard. Her 11-year-old daughter suffers from a rare immunodeficiency disorder that ...

Alerts have been issued about the rising number of chickenpox cases in Northern New South Wales this year. Meanwhile, ...

A child has died in a drowning at a pond in Zebulon. Police officers and firefighters arrived at a drowning call on Randwick Valley Court on Wednesday around 6 p.m. The 6-year-old had been pulled from ...

Doctors say several diseases deadly to children are likely to make a resurgence. This is a KFF Health News story. Florida plans to end nearly a half-century of required childhood immunizations against ...