Some countries recommend fewer childhood vaccines, but that plan is riskier in America, which lacks universal health care.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION SUBJECT:       Aligning United ...

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the ...

President Donald Trump will direct his top health officials to conduct a systematic review of the childhood vaccinations ...

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised its long-standing guidance about vaccines and ...

With childhood vaccination rates already declining, a vaccine advisory committee to the CDC considers changing the vaccine schedule, including dropping the universal hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.

On the campaign trail last October, President Trump promised to let his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “go wild on ...

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote ...

A small share of Americans, particularly among Republicans, don’t trust that there’s enough safety testing.

Unlike other kids in Massachusetts, students living in one Boston suburb won’t be able to go back to school next month unless they’ve had their chickenpox and measles shots, as well as other routine ...

In September, the federal committee that makes vaccine recommendations voted to change the childhood immunization schedule. That in itself isn’t unusual; past committees have done so over the years.