Michigan officials confirmed a new measles outbreak Thursday near Grand Rapids, bringing the U.S. to eight states with active outbreaks of the vaccine-preventable disease. Earlier this week, ...

According to a press release from the health department and the state Department of Public Health and Human Services, it is ...

If you want to protect your children or grandchildren against the growing measles epidemic, there is a simple step to ...

The U.S. hadn’t seen a measles death in a decade until this year, but vaccine hesitancy has helped fuel spread of the highly ...

The religious exemption from Hawaii law requiring children who attend a childcare facility or preschool, public or private school to be immunized against measles has been suspended — effective ...

Reports of research suggest that people who have been vaccinated with the shingles vaccine are less likely to develop ...

The multistate outbreak confirms experts’ fears that the virus will take hold in other US communities with low vaccination ...

A vaccine for shingles may lower the risk of dementia ... Shingles, a viral infection that produces a painful rash, is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox, varicella-zoster.

A measles outbreak in Knox County, Ohio, grew to 14 cases this week, with the state’s overall count in double digits across ...