Having weighed the evidence and concluded vaccines are safe, the scientific community moved on. The community of mothers did not.

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation.

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving ...

U.S. senators will soon determine whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be the nation’s next health secretary. If the environmental attorney from California takes the reins of the U.S. Department of ...

Other vaccine-related bills touch on some of the opposition that’s been growing since the pandemic. Oklahoma and Alabama have proposals that would require parental consent for any vaccine given ...

Other vaccine-related bills touch on some of the opposition that's been growing since the pandemic. Oklahoma and Alabama have proposals that would require parental consent for any vaccine given to ...

The information was not reported as it usually is by the CDC, in a weekly breakdown of flu activity called FluView, but was added to a section that focuses on respiratory illnesses in general. Trends ...

The information was not reported as it usually is by the CDC, in a weekly breakdown of flu activity called FluView, but was added to a section that focuses on respiratory illnesses in general.

The exact timing of when flu season begins and ends depends on where you live, Alicia Budd, MPH, an epidemiologist in the Influenza Division at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

According to the CDC, Bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses that usually spread between birds, not people. Most human cases of bird flu in the U.S. have been mild so far ...

The post-holiday influenza spike across New Jersey shows ... the flu are most contagious during the first three days, the CDC said. In some cases, however, people can spread the flu even before ...