BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Buncombe County Public Health’s Communicable Disease (CD) Team is monitoring an increase in chickenpox and whooping cough cases. In mid-November, county ...

The four vaccines are the first step in the surgeon general’s plan to end all Florida vaccine requirements. Medical personnel vaccinate students at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans, Tuesday, ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has considered altering the U.S. vaccine schedule to be more closely aligned with Denmark’s, people familiar with the matter said, but no final decision has been ...

So much has changed in American public health under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services. Alexandra Sifferlin and Alex Ellerbeck, two editors in Opinion, ...

A relatively mundane middle-aged rite of passage — shingles vaccination — might offer an added benefit: protection against, or even the slowing of the progression of, dementia. Over the past several ...

Reports that the Department of Health and Human Services may overhaul the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark’s have prompted a reasonable question: Why do American children receive ...

For the second year in a row, the US has surpassed 25,000 whooping cough cases — another sign of the risks of falling vaccination levels. Often called the “100-day cough,” whooping cough or pertussis ...

The shift would mean fewer shots recommended for children. But a Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the United States was getting “crazier and crazier in public health.” By Apoorva ...

Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It leads to itchy rashes with fluid-filled ...

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FIVE AT 535 ON YOUR HEALTH TONIGHT. MORE BIG CHANGES UNDER DISCUSSION RIGHT NOW FOR CHILDHOOD VACCINES IN THE U.S. WE ARE NOW LEARNING FEDERAL OFFICIALS WANT TO DO WHAT DENMARK DOES AND RECOMMEND ...

After measles was detected in San Luis Obispo County, you may be wondering about your risk of contracting the highly contagious virus. A local child recently contracted measles after traveling ...