Measles immunization rates for Kentucky kindergarteners have fallen from 93% in the 2019-2020 school year to 86.9% in ...

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A CDC advisory has recommended to ban the use of thimerosal in flu shots despite no evidence that it causes any harm.

Experts cite concerns over the rising number of parents who have claimed religious and medical exemptions to opt out of state ...

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"This is a very clear effort to shine a light on this anti-vaccine trope: that thimerosal is somehow dangerous.” ...

These days, the typical recommendation is that children receive two doses of the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella.

There are guardrails in the U.S. health system intended to prevent recommended vaccines from being prohibitively expensive.

As families across New Mexico prepare to send children back to school and against the backdrop of a rising number of measles cases nationwide, the state Department of Health and other groups are ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee plans to review the childhood vaccination schedule and scrutinize vaccines that have ...

Several northeastern states, including Maine, New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut, are considering forming the group to ...

One in five Idaho kindergartners lacked measles vaccine records during the 2023-2024 school year, a new report says. That’s last in the country.