In her latest column, Dr Jane Wilcock highlights that from January, a free chicken pox vaccine will be added to the UK ...

Globe-trotting couple Max & Maya take care of their daughter during chicken pox, sharing parenting challenges and care. Greenland's prime minister says 'we choose Denmark' over the US These ...

Families across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire can now get their children protected against chicken pox. The NHS added the jabs to the routine childhood vaccination programme from January 2026.

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Young children will be offered a free chicken pox jab on the NHS as part of their routine childhood vaccinations for the first time. It will be offered alongside the MMR jab, which protects against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It will be offered alongside the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella and become the MMRV jab. Chickenpox, ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am writing to get your opinion on whether I should get the shingles vaccine. My sister and I somehow managed to avoid contracting chicken pox as children. My sister came down with ...

A CDC advisory panel voted Thursday to limit the availability of a combined shot for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, the virus that causes chicken pox for children. The panel also delayed a ...

A string of chicken pox cases at one Massachusetts public school district has reignited the conversation on vaccines. Newton administrators will require every student to be vaccinated against ...

Unvaccinated students won’t be allowed to return to school in the fall at Newton public schools after a recent chickenpox surge. A series of cases of chicken pox last week brought to light that nearly ...