The Trump-appointed head of the federal panel that recommends vaccines is saying that polio and measles vaccines—and perhaps every vaccine—should be optional. Dr. Kirk Milhoan, who heads the Advisory ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics released its recommendations for childhood vaccines on Monday, breaking significantly with the guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

ANALYSIS — In sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention no longer recommends universal vaccination against six diseases. In justifying the move ...

Scott Rivkees still remembers two cases from his first week as a pediatric intern at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1982. The first was a patient with chickenpox or varicella encephalitis, a virus ...

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

Share on Pinterest The AAP has released new vaccine guidance that counteracts the recent CDC updates. Image Credit: FatCamera/Getty Images The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued an updated ...

Parents, grab your coffee and settle in because this is a twist in the latest vaccination guidelines. After decades of marching in lockstep, America’s pediatricians and the Centers for Disease Control ...

Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist recently appointed as chair of a highly influential federal vaccine committee, questioned the need for immunizing against illnesses like polio in a podcast ...

The nation’s largest pediatric medical society has released new vaccine guidelines that for the first time differ sharply from what the US government advises. Earlier this month, the Advisory ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) remind residents that most health insurance ...