A key advisory group vows to base decisions on evidence, boost confidence in vaccines and protect health. Experts fear the opposite is happening.

A new study points out success stories — and potential obstacles — to bringing vaccines to the world's children.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often became disabled or lost their lives to whooping cough, ...

ECONOMIC inequality, disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic and misinformation have slowed down global efforts to vaccinate ...

Researchers said on Tuesday that vaccination rates among children are dropping across the world, increasing the risk of ...

Routine vaccines have prevented the deaths of about 154 million children around the world over the past 50 years, a new study shows, but efforts have been slowing ...

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to fire the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) entire vaccine board even as childhood vaccination rates… ...

South Dakota’s immunization law requires children entering school or early childhood programs to be immunized against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, rubeola, rubella, mumps, tetanus ...

The trend is, however, deeply troubling, especially against the backdrop of the resurgence of diseases once virtually extinct. A massive measles outbreak in Texas, for example, has sickened nearly 700 ...

Immunization varies by state. New York, for example, had an estimated childhood vaccination rate of 97.7% for the 2023-24 school year, according to the CDC. Idaho had a rate of just 79.6%.