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Vaccinations are key amid recent measles outbreaks in the U.S., including Michigan. Here's a look at what to know.
President Donald Trump's administration plans to end U.S. funding for Gavi, an organization that helps buy vaccines for children in poor countries, and will scale back efforts to fight malaria, ...
Vaccination rates for children have fallen below critical disease-prevention thresholds in more than 8,000 schools across the ...
Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, coverage for selected routine childhood vaccines remained below prepandemic levels.
Under Kennedy's leadership, HHS has seen mass firings across health agencies, including staff responsible for outbreak ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week made his strongest endorsement yet of the measles vaccine ...
Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, coverage for selected routine childhood vaccines remained below prepandemic levels, according to a study published online March 26 in Pediatrics.
Exploring the history of lifesaving infectious disease immunizations and how the Vaccines for Children Program has saved millions of lives.
In total, childhood vaccinations have saved about 154 million lives over the past 50 years. Most of these are thanks to the ...
The Trump administration clawed back $12 billion in grants for state and local health departments, leading to vaccine clinic ...
WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor Vaccines for diseases like hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella and polio are given during infancy and early childhood. Today, those shots are recorded ...
(Vaccines are already administered only after ... and 11 percent of those infected this year have been hospitalized, many of them children under 5, according to the C.D.C. Two girls, ages 6 ...