Measles is making an unwelcome comeback in the United States, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking to dodge any responsibility for it. In a recent editorial for the Wall ...

The nation's leading group of pediatricians has issued its annual recommendations about which vaccines children should receive — marking the first significant break from the federal government's ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children be vaccinated against 18 diseases, more than the U.S. government directs after it overhauled its schedule. The doctors group, which released its ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flu activity is starting to decline nationwide, according to newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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ANALYSIS — In sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends universal vaccination against six diseases. In justifying the move ...

When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a revised childhood immunization schedule last week, experts were quick to say that they'd be sticking with the old schedule. And there's a good ...

Moving childhood influenza vaccination from a universal recommendation to one based on shared clinical decision-making endangers a group facing a high risk of flu complications, pediatric infectious ...

New Jersey is breaking away from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's pared-down vaccine recommendations for children and will instead join a collection of nearby states to follow ...

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the unprecedented move to change the schedule of vaccines that are regularly recommended for children. The changes, which are not based ...