These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

I was literally nauseated by Kennedy’s remarks” about Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, writes former CDC Director Tom Frieden.

Whooping cough, or pertussis, may sound like a disease from the past, but it is making a comeback. Adults are often the ones ...

This could be America’s future if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues his rampage against public health—and it may arrive much ...

Columnist Patrice Apodaca talks to a pediatric infectious diseases expert about why measles outbreaks among children are a ...

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

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Pertussis infections have surged in recent months, and some people may need an additional shot for protection. By Teddy Rosenbluth After a brief lull during the pandemic, whooping cough has ...

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

Kennedy called on Gavi “to re-earn the public trust and to justify the $8 billion America has provided in funding since 2001, ...

After recent moves by the US Department of Health and Human Services to restrict the approval and use of some vaccines — and ...