Vaccines

Research shows anti-vaxxers have stoked public resistance to vaccination and increased rates of vaccine-preventable diseases across the country.

A measles outbreak increases vaccination demand, a new bill would address the crisis of missing Native American women, and California's wet weather eases drought conditions.

The WHO has named vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 public-health threats of 2019. Here's how the anti-vaccination movement came about, and what to do about it.

Kids need to be vaccinated and adult travelers need booster shots.

Vaccine skepticism is as old as the idea of inoculation itself, but the recent politicization of vaccination is putting us all at risk.

A New World Bank unit will incorporate behavioral science into third-world financing and public health.

Your guide to California's progressive new laws.

Failing to challenge Donald Trump on vaccines was more than just a political faux pas.

Scientists have determined that one man has been shedding poliovirus for 28 years. What does this mean for polio eradication efforts?

Researchers take a first step toward combatting influenza without the need for seasonal vaccines.

Hint: It's not because of science.

Doubt is inherently human and it has a useful purpose, but that doesn’t mean it’s OK to keep questioning climate change, evolution, and the power of vaccines.

The perils of the “farm-food freedom” movement.

Because measles passes so easily between people, 96 percent to 99 percent vaccination rates are required for "herd immunity" to work.

The Ebola epidemic will likely lead to outbreaks of other diseases, but countries could prevent that with vaccination campaigns.

It’s better to be safe than sorry, and there’s nothing about the flu vaccine that’s dangerous.

Knowing when—and not just how—to vaccinate is important in fighting off bacteria, research shows.

A jab by a doctor might soon protect us from Dengue fever.

Trapped by the Cold War and scarred after a failed revolution, Hungary fought one of its greatest battles against polio.

As feared, the possibility of once rare or neglected diseases slopping out of the cauldron that is Syria is becoming more real.

Two vaccine scientists—one American, one Iranian—offer a unique way to give the nascent relationship between their two countries a shot in the arm.

It’s resurgent measles and "Aleppo evil" ... and dengue fever in Houston.