The World Health Organization is a global body, but decisions affecting New Zealand are made in Wellington, not in Geneva.

Listen to the audio file for the essentials.

Pandemic fallout turned her into a hermit, but her future’s looking brighter.

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota has quietly begun to steer a national initiative to safeguard the scientific foundations of US vaccine policy — a b...

Funding cut by Trump administration “isn’t just fiscally wasteful — it’s ethically indefensible”, says vaccinologist and professor Helen Petousis-Harris.

Viral infections increase dementia and stroke risk. Discover how vaccines—especially Shingles vaccines—may protect brain health and delay cognitive decline.

One of the world’s most prestigious general science journals, was the target of a two-year long sustained and virulent secret attack by a conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists with high-lev...

The Great Birdington Declaration

“We’re going to be left with people who go: ‘You know what, my uncle or my brother or my cousin died from bowel cancer. And it should have been picked up in a screening programme.’ Make no mistake, th...

Relying on voluntary commitments to reduce online harm puts New Zealand out of step with other countries with legally enforceable rules to protect social media users’ safety.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, about ending childhood vaccination programs.

Studies have repeatedly shown false claims spread on social media and influence public perceptions, to the detriment of public health. But strategies to combat disinformation remain elusive.

A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’

In 1835, 189 years ago, a gathering of great chiefs of Aotearoa signed He Whakaputanga with representatives of the British Crown. Five years from that date, Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed between Māo...

The anti vaxxers thought AI should compare their post with mine, here is what it concluded.