Vaccines

Last year saw the highest case count of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The travel notice advises two doses for all Americans ages 1 and older. An early dose is advised for traveling infants ages 6 months to 11 months.

While San Diego County has not reported any cases, medical experts say it’s not time to let your guard down. A free vaccine clinic was held on Saturday in response to that, reports NBC 7’s Adonis Albright.

Dozens of families went to a free vaccine clinic in Logan Heights to get their kids vaccinated against the measles amid an outbreak in parts of the country.

Texas lawmakers sent a bill to the governor that would make it significantly easier for parents to send kids to school without standard vaccinations.

The FDA has issued a long-awaited approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine but with unusual restrictions.

During a congressional budget hearing Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. deflected questions about his position on vaccines. The Health and Human Services secretary has been a longtime proponent of false vaccine conspiracies.

Oncologist Vinay Prasad was named the new vaccine chief by the FDA in May 2025. Here’s what you need to know.

If the FDA deems Pfizer’s and Moderna’s updated vaccines “new” products, it’s extremely unlikely the doses would be ready for the fall, vaccine experts say.

U.S. measles cases topped 700 as of Friday, capping a week in which Indiana joined five other states with active outbreaks. Texas grew by another 60 cases.

Dr. Diego Hijano, a pediatric infectious disease expert from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, answers your questions on how the MMR vaccine can protect your kids from the measles.

Under Kennedy’s leadership, HHS has seen mass firings across health agencies, including staff responsible for outbreak response and vaccine access.

It’s been shown that reactivation of the chickenpox virus can lead to the accumulation of aberrant proteins associated with Alzheimer’s.

Measles vaccination rates for young children may be far lower than publicly reported, a troubling development that could mean the United States is closer than expected to losing its “elimination status” for the extremely contagious disease. “We are experiencing an extremely concerning decline in measles vaccination in the very group most vulnerable to the disease,” said Benjamin Rader, a computational epidemiologist at Boston...

The CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a discredited researcher with a history of spreading misinformation that vaccines cause autism, according to two sources familiar with the plan.

There are a lot of questions about the efficacy of the measles vaccine and whether some should get a booster or be revaccinated. We’ve got answers.

The Mennonite population is being affected by a measles outbreak in West Texas. Here’s a closer look at the Anabaptist family of churches and some of their varying pratices, cultures and traditions.

Health officials in Lubbock, Texas, held a press conference on Wednesday following confirmation of the first death related to the current measles outbreak.

The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.

An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.