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A new study is part of a growing body of evidence that vaccination against shingles—and potentially other infections—can be protective against developing dementia. While there is currently no ...

The 15-member panel typically makes recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how vaccines should be used. But in a break from decades of practice, the ...

You can reach Jason on Signal at JasonMast.05. A meeting of vaccine advisers long targeted by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unfolded Tuesday seemingly without fireworks or interference ...

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The Measles Outbreak Simulator Dashboard allows the public to see vaccination rates at all Illinois schools. "Our new dashboard provides the public with the ability to review the measles ...

"We encourage people to get the measles vaccine," Kennedy told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook on Tuesday during his Make America Healthy Again tour in Arizona, marking the ...

McCloud and Telgemeier are intimately familiar with the “naysayers” – adults who think cartoons are something to grow out of. But graphic novels are a method of storytelling, the book ...

The crisis appears to have done little to change support for “vaccine choice.” Signs in English, Spanish and German inform people about measles prevention in the Gaines County Court House in ...

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More than half of the cases were also among people who were either unvaccinated or had not received two doses of the vaccine. Health officials said people who aren’t fully vaccinated typically ...