Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services, his policies on chronic disease, ...

There is a conspicuous lack of encouragement from Kennedy for people in Texas, New Mexico, or elsewhere around the country to get the MMR vaccine.

More states are loosening vaccine mandates, scaling back vaccine promotion efforts and taking other steps likely to lower vaccination rates — even as a major measles outbreak spreads in Texas.

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

This is not usual,” one doctor said. "Any death of a child is one death too many, especially when it comes to vaccine preventable illnesses,” said another. Meanwhile, as cases crop up in Kentucky and ...

In the waning days of the Biden administration, the Labor Department added ovarian, uterine, cervical, and breast cancer coverage for wildland firefighters. It’s unclear whether the new protections ...

A growing measles outbreak in Texas, where one unvaccinated child died and nearly 20 others have been hospitalized with ...

Two long-planned vaccine meetings — one at the US Centers for Disease Control and another at the US Food and Drug ...

Multiple agencies responded to two-alarm fire in Hampton Thursday night. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/hampton/one-hospitalized-following-2-alarm-fire-in-hampton-thursday-night/ ...

BY: JOSEPH DEBELL / OPINION EDITOR Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The ongoing measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico is not just a risk to public health — it’s a consequence of Robert F.