Experts in vaccines and vaccination — including pediatricians — work together throughout the year to update the Recommended ...

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Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine ...

The controversial preservative thimerosal will be stripped from all flu vaccines distributed in the United States.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) announced this week that the number of kindergarteners starting school without being ...

British health chiefs already sounded the alarm over a spike in cases earlier this year; last year saw the highest number of ...