Why aren’t meningococcal vaccines recommended for people over the age of 23? Are they assuming (wrongly) that most people ...

How risk-based recommendation could reshape childhood meningococcal disease ...

The CDC has revised childhood vaccine recommendations after a Trump administration review, with local Waco parents sharing ...

John B. Grimes lost his vision as a Texas Tech student. Shared clinical decision-making for vaccines sounds reasonable, but ...

The U.S. childhood vaccine schedule was significantly overhauled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, reducing the number of universally recommended shots from 17 to 11.

A variety of vaccines in the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule help to protect kids against meningitis. Though rare, meningococcal disease -- caused by the bacteria Neisseria meningitidis-- remains ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

A woman who had all her limbs amputated due to meningitis B has called for a government to subsidise the cost so people can get vaccinated against the strain. Lily McGarry, 24, had the infection at ...

The Trump administration is widely recommending fewer childhood immunizations, including for influenza, rotavirus and hepatitis A.