Whooping cough cases jumped from 110 in 2023 to 2,000 in 2024. Experts urged parents at a roundtable Wednesday to keep their ...

Symptoms, which appear one to two weeks after contact with the virus, include a high fever, cough, runny nose, red and watery ...

Healthy Info, Healthy Kids will be a regular column by Akron Children's health care providers to give parents accurate ...

Kennedy’s decision to replace ACIP wholesale and the comments he has made about deviating from standard vaccine policymaking ...

In recent weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has begun to dismantle decades of vaccine safety ...

The percentage of parents seeking waivers for vaccinations for religious or other reasons has nearly doubled from 2020 to ...

There are different types of waivers families can pursue, including medical waivers, religious waivers and philosophical ...

Last year, following an outbreak the state had not seen in years, Kentucky ultimately reported 543 cases of whopping cough.

How he coped became a powerful symbol of an individual’s persistence in managing with an impairment. He was, in part, defined ...

Children in 2nd grade (about 7 years) and 10th grade (about 15 years) are offered the vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis.

Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to deadly infections.