Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS. You can reach Chelsea on Signal at chelseacirruzzo.42. Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious ...

Learn about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for kids, the possible side effects, and the benefits of vaccination.

The federal government is reducing the number of vaccines it formally recommends to all children in the United States, which public health experts say is an abrupt, potentially dangerous change that ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

North Carolina public schools require students get the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine, but families can ask for an ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced an unprecedented step to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for children, effective immediately. The CDC said it will recommend that ...

10,000 families participating in research by The Kids Research Institute Australia have demonstrated the effectiveness of a ...

Children in families who participate in a home visitation program in Maskwacîs, Alberta, are six times more likely to get ...

In December, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced an end to state vaccine reporting requirements, ...