Medical News Today speaks to experts to fact-check some claims about measles and the MMR vaccine, namely U.S. Health ...

During a Cabinet meeting last week, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed what is now the ...

Peter Hildebrand, whose 8-year-old daughter Daisy died in early April after she tested positive for measles, said he has no ...

Since January 2025, the United States has been confronting its most significant measles outbreak in over a decade. The disease, declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, has been confirmed to ...

As measles outbreaks popped up across the U.S. this winter, pediatricians waited for the nation's public health agency to ...

Texas health officials reported over 560 measles cases in the state Tuesday, days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced 712 confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. as outbreaks ...

Most of the top-performing posts analysed were found to contain misinformation, according to social media researchers.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, announced a restructuring of the ...

Whooping cough is spread through respiratory droplets from an infected person and is mitigated by vaccination, which was first introduced in the 1940s. The modern DTaP vaccine aids in protection ...

Covenant Children's Hospital located in Lubbock on Feb. 26, 2025. The hospital has been treating patients who have fallen ill with measles. Credit: Trace Thomas for The Texas Tribune ...

A U.S. judge on Tuesday demanded U.S. officials provide documents and answer questions under oath about what it had done to secure the return of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador, ramping up ...