Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia is ending its three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of ...

After a month of reviewing how 20 other nations are protecting children with vaccines, the CDC has new guidelines for the childhood vaccinations. In the U.S., children get vaccine protection for 18 ...

Federal officials made sweeping changes to U.S. vaccine policy on Monday, sharply cutting the number of recommended childhood immunizations, a move that could impact public health and vaccination ...

What a time to be a new parent. Tradition holds that everyone seems to have opinions about your new baby, from feeding to sleep schedules. But sharing thoughts on vaccines has become confusing, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating whether the COVID-19 vaccines were associated with any deaths across all age ranges. “FDA is doing a thorough investigation, across multiple age ...

Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots on the ...

The shingles vaccine not only offers protection against the painful viral infection, but a new study suggests that the two-dose shot also may slow the progression of dementia. Shingles, caused by the ...

In the late 1990s, a theory gripped parents around the world: What if childhood vaccines — particularly the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine — cause autism? Nearly three decades later, the ...

In a Phase 3 trial of more than 18,000 volunteers across three countries, an mRNA influenza vaccine from Pfizer has outperformed standard seasonal flu shots by 34.5%. It's yet another sign that this ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly revised a vaccine safety page on its website to introduce language that suggests uncertainty over whether vaccines cause autism, echoing ...

UMass Amherst researchers have developed a groundbreaking nanoparticle-based cancer vaccine that prevented melanoma, pancreatic, and triple-negative breast cancers in mice—with up to 88% remaining ...