At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ...

The slowdown could thwart the World Health Organization’s (WHO) goal of having 90 percent of the world’s children and ...

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 ...

Childhood vaccination rates have markedly declined across the U.S. since the start of COVID, according to new Johns Hopkins University research showing 78% of more than 2,000 counties reported ...

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

On day one of the highly anticipated first meeting of the CDC's newly formed vaccine advisory committee, members debated the ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has abruptly fired all 17 members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with eight new members, some of whom ...

Measles — declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2002 thanks to widespread vaccination — has hit 22 states this year. Arizona hasn’t reported a single case during the current outbreak, despite ...

"When the vaccination rate decreases in an area, especially for measles, outbreaks can occur as more and more children are susceptible and can spread disease," she said.

More than two-thirds are concerned about declining childhood vaccination rates for diseases like measles and polio — diseases we once thought vaccines had rendered safely behind us.

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… ...