“We are heading up a second peak of flu season,” said Caitlin Rivers, a Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist who writes the “Force of Infection” newsletter. The country saw its first peak right ...

At least 588 measles cases have been confirmed so far this year across the U.S., according to updated data from the Centers ...

Vaccines are safe, subject to medicine's most rigorous testing, and undergo years of extensive clinical trials.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.

The Department of Public Health confirms the first 2026 measles case in Los Angeles County, urges protection before traveling.

Vaccines are not banned. Parents can still protect their children. Pediatricians can still recommend these vaccines. Families ...

With months left of flu season, influenza cases are on the rise in California and transmission is high in the Bay Area, data ...

This mercury-containing compound, used as a vaccine preservative, is commonly used in lower-income countries — and deemed safe. The U.S. is now demanding that Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance stop using it.

Local pediatricians are pushing back on new guidance from the CDC that cuts the childhood vaccine schedule from 18 to 11 ...

In the last two weeks, Chicago has had two deaths and at least seven cases of meningococcal disease in adults — a higher ...

There is no cure for measles. Doctors can provide supportive care and try to manage the symptoms — reduce fever, prevent dehydration, treat secondary bacterial infections — until the disease has run ...

For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke with a single ...