Vaccinations

Health professionals and advocates of vaccination used Twitter to share their stories of vaccinating themselves and others.

UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced Sunday that the UK government is considering making vaccinations mandatory for school children.

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"This is misappropriation of a movement that really is not over and proves to be challenging to overcome," Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Los Angeles) said.

California Highway Patrol said the woman dropped ""a feminine hygiene device" filled with blood onto the senate floor, shouting "that's for the dead babies."

The increase in measles cases is due to fewer people being vaccinated against the deadly disease, which was, at one time, declared eliminated.

She is for medical exemptions, and has a reason why.

Rep. Jonathan Stickland told a a prominent vaccinologist to "mind your own business."

The child's mother voiced fears that anti-vaccination campaigners are pushing propaganda on children via the online retailer.

This year, there have been 667 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S.

The bill, if passed into law, would allow minors over 14 in New York to receive vaccinations without parental approval.

Newsweek spokes to science writer and pro-vaccine advocate David Robert Grimes, who has received the John Maddox Prize for communicating science in the face of hostility.

"I think the lesson is the diseases that we think we have vanquished lay in wait for us."

"God knows how I'm still alive," Lindenberger wrote on Reddit.

Lindenberger made headlines by defying his parents to get shots as an 18-year-old.

In 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a discredited former British doctor published a paper that proposed that there was a link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and autism.

Online anti-vaccination groups are aggressively attempting to intimidate medical professionals and other vaccine advocates into silence, according to reports.

Kyusei Shinkyo, which warns against "the hazards of using medicine to treat disease" has agreed to alter its teachings after an outbreak at one of its workshops in Japan.

Marina Williams claims a New York state school district is breaking the law by not exempting her children from immunization because of their religious beliefs.

Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are a safe and effective tool for the prevention of childhood diseases, a significant minority of the U.S. population remains skeptical of the practice

The structure "remembers" past infections and helps the body mount a response.

Researchers found that whether or not a person believes in conspiracy theories could account for up to a quarter of their attitude toward vaccines.

Sixteen people have died and an additional two deaths are under investigation.

Toss out those needles: Flu vaccines could be delivered via a painless, Band-Aid-like patch.

The infants missed out on the first dose of a combined vaccine against three possibly fatal diseases.

Three vaccines, for diphtheria, tetanus and poliomyelitis, are already mandatory in France.

An outbreak of measles is spreading across Italy and other parts of Europe.

The Tribeca Film Festival creator agreed to pull a controversial film about vaccines and autism.

"The science is clear: Vaccines are safe and efficacious."

"It benefits everyone to do all that is possible to prevent anyone from requiring medical attention," writes Jae Won Joh, a doctor.