The revised guidelines also will lead to more than $20 million in extra health care costs, the research shows.

Under its former childhood vaccine schedule, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that kids get 12 different vaccines protecting against 16 diseases before age 10. It didn’t ...

The decision by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B ...

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RSV is the most common reason why babies end up in the hospital in their first year. A new study finds a vaccine for expectant mothers is more effective at protecting babies than previously shown.

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LANDRUM, South Carolina (AP) — With baby Arthur too young for the measles vaccine and a sibling due in June, the Otwells grew nervous when the threat of the highly contagious virus started factoring ...

Winter illnesses are slamming the U.S. A mutant influenza variant is sending scores of people to hospitals, 32 children have died from flu so far this season, whooping cough has killed more than a ...