West Virginia University received more than $1.6 million to expand teacher recruitment, preparation and retention efforts across the state.

An mRNA flu vaccine that updates close to season has finally been approved. Its speed means nothing until officials move a decades-old strain deadline

The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law

Nicole Saphier rejected the notion that vaccines cause autism during her confirmation hearing.

During his confirmation hearing, Chris Klomp sought to distance himself from the vaccine-related controversies that have surrounded his bosses.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to give a keynote address this week at a conference for Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine advocacy organizatio…

Learn when to get vaccinated, who's at risk, and why annual flu shots are the best flu protection for your whole family.

A new UGA vaccine protects against bad fungi while not harming the naturally present fungi in the gut, new study finds.

On July 28, measles was confirmed in an unvaccinated Barbour County resident. Officials knew of no widespread exposure, and that is good news. But it's not an opportunity to turn

GSK has announced positive Phase II data for its mRNA seasonal influenza vaccine candidate, showing it elicited higher immune responses against all tested influenza strains compared to currently licen

A positive trial holds promise for treating people with cancer. More research is needed to get effective vaccines to the clinic.

In a natural experiment involving 72,920 propensity-matched US adults aged 60 years and older, recombinant shingles vaccination was associated with a 9% lower cardiovascular disease burden over seven ...

Pennsylvania health officials report that two unvaccinated residents have died after being infected with measles.

Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.

US measles cases have climbed to 2,318 in 2026, already exceeding all of 2025 and marking the country's highest annual total since 1991, as CDC data show falling MMR coverage continuing to fuel outbre...

A new peptide-based vaccine elicited antigen-specific T cell responses in high-risk patients, demonstrating proof of concept for PDAC intervention.

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

Most voters in West Virginia support keeping school vaccination requirements, according to a poll released this week.

Vaccination is one of the most effective ways to prevent diseases. Over the past 50 years, essential vaccines against just 14 diseases have saved at least 154 million lives (1). During the same period...

A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety o...

Get info about diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, the vaccines, common questions, and relative risks and benefits to consider.

For centuries, humans have looked for ways to protect each other against deadly diseases. From experiments and taking chances to a global vaccine roll-out in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, im...

For centuries, humans have looked for ways to protect each other against deadly diseases. From experiments and taking chances to a global vaccine roll-out in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, im...

The West Virginia Professional Charter Schools Board entered a friend of the court brief this past week in a state Supreme Court review of conflict between the state's religious freedoms law and its m...

People who are age 50 and older should get this vaccine to prevent shingles.

The League of Women Voters and the Defense Trial Counsel are among groups opposing Raleigh judge’s ruling in school vaccine case.

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The campaign to change the rules was years in the making, orchestrated in part by two men with close ties to US health secretary RFK Jr

Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia now reject at least some federal vaccine guidance as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to de-emphasize the importance of ...