Vaccination coverage is eroding across the United States at the same time measles cases are surging, according to new county-level data compiled from state health agencies. Measles outbreaks are ...
The vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, has reduced cervical cancer by nearly 90% in women vaccinated as ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was reported in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center with support from the Pulitzer Center. Maina Modu, an immunization officer in Nigeria’s northeastern ...
Measles is still spreading in the US, but calls from government officials for Americans to roll up their sleeves won’t be enough to keep the country from losing a quarter-century of success ...
The US Department of Health and Human Services is recommending fewer vaccines for most American children, health officials said Monday. Health officials will continue to recommend the measles, mumps ...
(Bloomberg) -- Americans are heading into winter less protected against one of the season’s deadliest viruses, with flu vaccination rates forecast to fall more than 10% this year, according to CSL Ltd ...
Public health debates often sound abstract until policy decisions start to land in pediatric clinics, schools and family kitchens. Right now, recommendations are circulating within the Department of ...
US health officials initially planned to announce the changes in December, weeks after Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, newly named acting director of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug ...