When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines last week, the agency suggested the move would help protect consumers.

Now that measles, which was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, has re-emerged in this country, here’s something you may be wondering about: whether you should get a measles vaccine booster.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is requiring all new vaccines to undergo placebo-controlled trials in a policy change the agency described as a "radical departure ...

The Department of Health and Human Services has transferred $500 million from research into next-generation COVID-19 vaccines, redirecting the money to a single vaccine project linked to the Trump ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is changing the way vaccines are tested and will now require all new vaccines to undergo safety testing in placebo-controlled trials ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, a move that the agency said will increase transparency but that medical experts fear could ...

But then, while pregnant with her first child in 2012, a family she nannied for suggested she read a book that claimed to describe the dangers of vaccines. “It just snowballed from there ...

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Share on Pinterest Does the MMR vaccine’s protection against measles change over time? MNT asks experts. Image credit: Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images. As the measles ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) vaccine advisory committee will meet on Tuesday for a two-day session to lay out new recommendations, including a proposal to scale back ...

Before the measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, it is estimated that 3 to 4 million people in the U.S. contracted measles every year, causing 500 deaths and 48,000 hospitalizations annually ...

A vaccine skeptic who has long promoted false claims about the connection between immunizations and autism has been tapped by the federal government to conduct a critical study of possible links ...