California and three other Western states — Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii — are flatly rejecting the CDC’s decision to scale back childhood vaccine recommendations, calling the move “dangerous” and ...

All young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for the first time on the NHS. The vaccine will be combined with the existing MMR jab, given at 12 and 18 months of age, ...

Before the pandemic, roughly half of counties had kindergarten vaccination rates high enough to prevent measles outbreaks. After the pandemic, many counties increased their vaccination rates, reaching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Home Office says the new passport will be the ‘most secure passport ever produced’ (Oli Scarff/Getty) British passports are ...

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LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - British health minister Wes Streeting on Monday insisted doctors could still reschedule a planned five-day strike to January as hospitals grapple with a wave of rising flu ...

A vaccine advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to change the recommendations for when babies should get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. That ...

Most parents have never had to worry about hepatitis B. They have never had to hear the words liver cancer or cirrhosis linked to a child. For more than 30 years the U.S. has quietly protected ...

A federal advisory panel recommended stopping hepatitis B vaccines in newborns immediately after birth, the standard protocol for more than 30 years. A box of hepatitis B vaccine is displayed at a CVS ...