Whooping cough cases jumped from 110 in 2023 to 2,000 in 2024. Experts urged parents at a roundtable Wednesday to keep their ...

Giving a vaccine early can still fall within government guidelines. The CDC recommends a child get the second MMR vaccine ...

Malaria caused 597,000 deaths worldwide in 2023, with children under 5 accounting for 76 percent of all malaria deaths in the ...

Alleging that US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, is undermining vaccine confidence, six medical societies and an individual female physician have sued to ...

Measles was considered eradicated in the U.S. in 2000. For the first time in 25 years, cases have reached a new high.

I am writing as a pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist who trained at Children’s Memorial Hospital (now Lurie Children’s), ...

A pregnant physician is at the center of a new lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...

A CDC advisory panel on Thursday voted 5-2 to recommend the use of a new preventative RSV therapy in babies, Merck’s ...

Pediatricians say their key concern is that after Robert Kennedy Jr. fired the government’s top vaccine experts and appointed replacements, the U.S. may ultimately stop calling for the vaccines' use.

The 74 reports childhood vaccination rates have dropped in 1,600 US counties since the pandemic, risking herd immunity amid ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee said it will study the childhood immunization schedule in the first meeting featuring HHS Secretary RFK Jr.'s hand-selected members.

The panel’s new chairman questions hepatitis B vaccine timing, even as CDC nominee says vaccines save lives.