But vaccines don’t just go a long way towards keeping your child healthy. Immunizing your little one also keeps other kids from getting sick, and vice versa, through something called herd immunity.

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With the United States likely to lose its measles elimination status in the next few months and the possibility of looming changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, new research highlights the risk ...

Under its former childhood vaccine schedule, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that kids get 12 different vaccines protecting against 16 diseases before age 10. It didn’t ...

Hepatitis B is a virus that can damage the liver and lead to lifelong health problems. The hepatitis B vaccine prevents short-term illness (acute hepatitis) and a life-threatening infection called ...

It’s not too late to protect your baby from flu and RSV, which are circulating in Utah communities now and already causing some children to be hospitalized. “RSV immunization and influenza vaccine are ...

It probably won’t immediately become more difficult for children to get the vaccines that the federal government removed from its universal recommendations. Insurance companies so far say that they ...

LANDRUM, South Carolina (AP) — With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June, the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started factoring ...