If they have a more serious illness, it's usually best to delay vaccination. Talk with your baby's doctor if your baby isn't ...

“The deceased girl was a premature baby. The health workers followed all the rules while administering the vaccine to her. We don’t find any fault on their part. Even then, the family is free to file ...

The chickenpox vaccine protects against the highly contagious varicella-zoster virus, which results in a rash and potentially ...

In 2000, after decades of hard work and widespread vaccination campaigns, public health officials declared measles eliminated ...

Vaccines recommended during pregnancy don’t contain live virus, so they cause “an immune response” in pregnant people, but “not a true infection,” Aziz said. The baby is then better ...

Childhood vaccinations have not recovered from the slump that happened after the pandemic, according to new research. This comes as the United States deals with one of the largest measles ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a discredited researcher with a history of spreading misinformation that vaccines ...

Kennedy published an op-ed on Fox News on Sunday urging parents to consider the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine for their children, laying out the benefits of vaccination and telling ...

This is a KFF Health News story. Researchers racing to develop bird flu vaccines for humans have turned to a cutting-edge technology that enabled the rapid development of lifesaving COVID shots.

The US Department of Health and Human Services asked the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study vaccines and autism, a person familiar with the situation told CNN, despite strong ...

The decision to re-examine the question comes as a measles outbreak, driven by low vaccination rates, widens in Texas. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn and Sheryl Gay Stolberg The Centers for Disease ...

Pregnant women who haven’t gotten the vaccine may give birth prematurely or have a low-birthweight baby. Among children with measles, about 1 in every 20 develops pneumonia, the CDC said ...