Vaccines

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

Researchers are looking for 15 people with lymphoma to test the vaccine.

The story claims a CDC doctor said the recent flu outbreak is being caused by the flu vaccine itself.

Should avoiding vaccines be treated like a crime? Increasingly it is.

Turns out parents with second thoughts about vaccinations might be just as worried as any other parents about the (extremely slim) potential side effects.

Nonmedical vaccine exemptions were on the rise up through 2013. Now they appear to have leveled off.

Some health experts don't completely agree on the number of kids that actually need to be immunized.

The world's first vaccine created in 1798 may not be what we've always thought it is.

Also, get a flu shot already.

The mother is philosophically opposed to vaccinating her son for transmissible, potentially fatal and otherwise preventable diseases.

"I would rather sit behind bars for standing up for what I believe in," the mother told a local news reporter.

This parasite, carried by a sandfly, kills tens of thousands pf people every year. Treatment exists, but the sickness can still disfigure and kill people.

With cases increasing astronomically, better protection from the tick-borne disease is urgently needed.

Clinical trials on a prospective type 1 immunization are set to begin next year.

A study suggests even a 5 percent decline in MMR vaccine adherence could spark a measles outbreak in the U.S.

Cases of the highly infectious virus continue to crop up in countries throughout Eastern and Western Europe.

The WHO said it could save "tens of thousands of lives" in Africa, where malaria remains a major killer.

Just in time for mosquito season, the National Institutes of Health is launching a multi-site study of a vaccine that may protect against the mosquito-borne virus.

Vaccine skeptics gathered in Washington, D.C., today with accusations of a government-led cover-up of data linking childhood immunizations to autism. The protest culminated in a talk by outspoken anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Rotavirus kills an estimated 1,300 children each day.

Increasing outbreaks of mumps virus across the U.S. may be the result of the vaccine itself—and the lack thereof.

An unexplained shortage of the injectable version of the vaccine slows attempts to kill polio in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.

Nearly 100 million children are infected with tuberculosis, which causes 2 million deaths each year.

Measles is the fifth vaccine-preventable disease to be eliminated from the Americas, but being declared disease-free doesn't mean measles will never surface again.

A new development in preventive medicine could provide the safety assurance some women feel is missing with tampons.

The White House said the money would be used for research on vaccines and diagnostics to fight the mosquito-borne illness.

While incidences of the virus have declined, global public health officials say many countries still aren't reaching immunization goals.

An anti-vaxxer organization is up in arms because a primate study it funded concluded that childhood immunizations are safe.

A fractured regulatory system hampered by Big Pharma's meddling has led to a growing global falsification market.

"Herd immunity" still isn't statistically achievable in small pockets of the country, according to a new report from the CDC.