The deadliest country in the world for young children is South Sudan — the United Nations estimates that about 1 in 10 children born there won’t make it to their fifth birthday. But just a hundred ...

Taking aim at a longtime target of anti-vaccine activists, CDC advisors said Thursday that the U.S. should not administer ...

They had to leave the South to study medicine, and open their own clinics in New Orleans after no one would hire them. Now ...

The study noted persisting outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, including the U.S. measles outbreaks this year reaching ...

Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...

How accurate are low-complexity manual nucleic acid amplification tests for detecting pulmonary tuberculosis in children? - There is limited evidence that LC-mNAATs can correctly identify pulmonary ...

Six Baylor College of Medicine faculty were honored this year with the Michael E. DeBakey M.D. Award for Excellence in ...

The analysis, conducted by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, reveals a significant decline in vaccination rates—particularly after the ...

A global study finds large numbers of children are unvaccinated against diseases like measles, tuberculosis and polio, which ...

Vaccines have prevented the deaths of about 154 million children around the world over the past 50 years, a new study shows, ...

Kids take 20,000 breaths a day—but what’s in that air? Hidden indoor pollution may be quietly sabotaging your child’s brain ...