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After decades of American children routinely receiving polio vaccines, the virus that had doomed many to paralysis was nearly eliminated in the United States. But vaccine avoidance today may allow the ...

Waldorf schools tend to attract parents who don’t want their kids to eat junk food or play Fortnite; they also draw a fair number who skip vaccines. During the pandemic, I began to hear considerable ...

The committee’s reputation has taken a nosedive, however, following HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to purge ...

Almost 250 years ago, George Washington created America’s first mass immunization mandate, relying on science to protect public health. Oh, how times have changed. Back then, smallpox had just helped ...

When it comes to infectious diseases, measles is “the canary in the coal mine,” one expert said.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has launched a crusade to dismantle medical and scientific practices that ensure public health.

15 states sue Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, RFK Jr over changes to federal vaccine policy, ACIP.

Many readers are incensed that federal health officials may go after vaccines containing minuscule amounts of aluminum salts.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will push out its February vaccine confab to an undetermined date next month, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing an unnamed person close ...

The attorneys general of California and Arizona on Tuesday announced Democrats' multi-state lawsuit to block the Trump ...

A 3-day meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices that was scheduled for next week has been called off, HHS confirmed to Healio on Thursday.HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said ...