To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a promise: He would not ...

CDC holds that vaccines are a safe, effective way to protect your health and prevent the spread of flu, COVID, measles. What ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins confirmation to be President Trump's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The ...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, ...

"I am a women's health provider at a federally qualified health center and public hospital, and I've never been so scared for ...

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation effort after a year of rising cases. The ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday launched the first nationwide anti-polio campaign for the year 2025, the Prime Minister’s House (PMO) reported. The campaign will commerce on February 3 ...

Here is what we know about polio as a disease, its vaccines and the likely number of lives saved through inoculation. In its early stages, poliomyelitis — known as polio — causes fatigue ...

"It wasn't Guinea-worm disease. After receiving treatment, he was able to resume his life as a fisherman. I was very proud to have helped him." In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the elimination ...

Both are below the CDC's target of 95% vaccination rate for a healthy community immunization level. Similar trends have continued for DTaP (diptheria, tetanus and pertussis) and polio vaccines ...

It is tragically ironic, therefore, that whooping cough, or pertussis, is fast becoming the poster child disease ... like the elimination of polio in the U.S. Ironically, these vaccine victories ...