Students and older teens have not been vaccinated against the strain that has caused the outbreak of cases in Kent.

Many kids are scared of getting needles, and this can stop them getting vaccinations that protect that against the flu. Less ...

A shingles vaccine might double as a powerful heart protector. In people already at high risk, it cut major cardiac events by 46% and deaths by an impressive 66% within a year. Scientists think ...

Many vaccines confer surprising knock-on, or indirect, health benefits when they have been put into widespread use.

Vaccines also have been used to eradicate or significantly reduce deadly and debilitating diseases, such as smallpox and polio. Pediatricians told us that states have school vaccine requirements ...

Diseases such as chickenpox and measles may be more than hazy memories from childhood. The current measles outbreak, for instance, shows little sign of abating. Chickenpox can resurface many years ...

WASHINGTON, DC: Jayanta Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, recently ...