The reason we don’t see thousands of children dying from measles, whooping cough and other diseases is because vaccines work.

Over the last few weeks, about 1,000 children have gotten the COVID-19 vaccination at the Chicago-area pediatrician’s office where Dr. Susan Sirota works, but her practice and others like it were ...

Pediatric flu vaccines significantly reduce the number of childhood cases of influenza, new research from Harvard Medical ...

Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections and other serious illnesses, as ...

Many kids are scared of getting needles, and this can stop them getting vaccinations that protect that against the flu. Less than 1 in 4 Australian children were vaccinated against influenza in 2025.

Dr. Nola Jean Ernest, a pediatrician in Alabama, checks on Emmalynn Newby, age 2 1/2, while her mother, Kali Newby, watches. Credit: (Dan Anderson/The Washington Post/Getty Images) The Hechinger ...

A new U.S. study shows that influenza vaccines can protect many young children from illness, but there are significant ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has removed the rotavirus vaccine, along with five others, from the list of universally recommended childhood immunizations. This makes the U.S. an outlier.

A decade ago, Michigan had high rates of parents not vaccinating their children, so it required them to attend an in-person ...

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