Vaccines

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak

In this week’s news roundup, we cover activity from the black hole at our galaxy’s center and a troubling measles outbreak in Texas.

Norovirus infection rates are extremely high this year, raising the question: Why can’t a vaccine protect us from the stomach bug?

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in infectious-disease research. Here’s what he might do as the U.S.’s newly confirmed secretary of health and human services

Polio, a disease that can cause lifelong paralysis, has been eliminated from the U.S. Experts fear a resurgence if lifesaving vaccines are revoked under the new administration

From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s views on vaccines to Medicaid, here are some ways his confirmation as head of the Department of Health and Human Services could have sweeping effects on health care

Despite decades of doubt and dismissal, biochemist Katalin Karikó never gave up on the research that gave us mRNA COVID vaccines in record time

Pneumonia is one of the leading causes of death in older adults and young children—vaccinations are an effective way to reduce illness

“America’s Doctor” says that our common enemy is the danger posed by viruses, not each other.

If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the form of a vaccine is months away

Vaccines are the first step toward health equity in many parts of the world

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is on the rise after a lull at the beginning of the COVID pandemic