One of the first written accounts of measles was published by a Persian doctor in the 9th century, according to the CDC. In ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the H.H.S. secretary, claimed that doctors had successfully treated children with unconventional ...

Addressing reader concerns about measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico. You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a ...

Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, was confirmed to run the country’s leading health agency, sparking outrage and concern among public health experts. Measles is a highly contagious airborne ...

Dozens of children have contracted measles in the state’s largest outbreak in 33 years. Online, some are blaming vaccines for ...

Public health authorities reported on Feb. 21 that an ongoing measles outbreak ... “I am not going to take away anybody’s vaccine.” That assurance belies his long, long history as an anti ...

That's because early versions of the measles vaccine were made from an inactivated (killed) virus, which didn't work particularly well, Offit says. That's why the Centers for Disease Control and ...

was thoroughly mocked for sharing information about the safety of the measles vaccine — not long after he voted to ... to his followers, the post made him the subject of social media mockery.

“The best thing to do for measles is vaccinate,” Siegel said. “That vaccine, if you take both doses as a child ... why we need them the way I just did. We have to meet people where they ...

An outbreak of measles in northwest Texas grew to 159 cases on Tuesday, about a dozen more than health officials reported ...