The battle over vaccines is back at the State House. A bill is headed to the House floor, recommended for passage, that will ...

Polio is a dangerous disease that’s been largely eliminated in the United States, thanks to the polio vaccine (aka the inactivated polio vaccine, or IPV). To stay safe and maintain immunity in your ...

A bill to create a religious exemption for school children’s vaccination requirements has passed the West Virginia Senate.

The Make America Healthy Again movement had a negative impact on pharmaceutical innovation and the corporations responsible for it.

Covid hospitalizations were not significantly reduced when adults used the antiviral pill, researchers find. Also, a nationwide study suggests estrogen may play a role in long covid, putting women at ...

Over 30 years, pediatrician Debbie Greenhouse has seen the worst of what infectious diseases can do but never seen a child with measles. Now she worries she will.

COVID-19 showed the flaws in our approach to vaccine communication. Two public health experts suggest ways to fix them.

The Government of Sindh, in collaboration with its partners will launch polio immunization drive in 27 high-risk union councils (UCs) of Karachi from February 22. The campaign will strengthen children ...

On the eve of the vote in the West Virginia Senate scheduled today on whether to grant broad religious and philosophical ...

Seventy-one years ago this month, Dr. Jonas Salk, a virologist at the University of Pittsburgh, administered the first polio vaccine to children at Arsenal Elementary School, in Pittsburgh. Salk had ...