On Wednesday, officials from Rockland County, New York declared their almost year-long outbreak of measles over—a…

Decades of research has shown that vaccines do not cause autism spectrum disorder (ASD). But the fear of that…

In a speech made to Congress Thursday, US Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb took stock of how his…

Vaccines are one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. They’ve helped humankind more or less…

Back in January, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it was getting involved with a…

The CDC first recommended the widespread use of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in 2007. Eight years later,…

California vaccination bill SB277 has passed in the State Assembly on a 46 to 30 vote. The bill, inspired in part by …

An anti-vaccination group in Australia is facing backlash today over a Facebook post that claims vaccination is just…

There's a lot of hubbub and crap being spewed about not vaccinating your kids and letting measles creep back into…

Vaccines save lives and prevent untold amounts of suffering. It's that simple. And yet, still, many parents refuse…

Roald Dahl – author of such books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda – lost…

When the smallpox vaccine was first introduced in the 18th century, not everyone was eager to get inoculated. Many…

This year, California weathered its biggest pertussis – aka "whooping cough" – epidemic in seventy years (for a…

Although medical science has advanced immeasurably in the last century, many preventable diseases still claim lives…

In North America and Europe, we don't worry much about polio. Vaccination has eradicated this terrible, paralyzing…

Newly published findings reveal that, since its introduction in 2006, the HPV vaccine has reduced HPV infection…

Even if it means protection from dangerous, even fatal diseases, having a needle jabbed into your skin and liquid…

Here's an absolutely lovely bit of ranty, frustrated-scientist humor from The Guardian's Dean Burnett, that doubles…

The United States is in the middle of its worst whooping cough (aka pertussis) outbreak in over half a century, but…

Vaccines are important. Very important.