Skeptics who have come to believe measles is a harmless childhood rite of passage have been duped by the stunning success of ...

I am one of only two members of Congress who are polio survivors. If Kennedy rolls back the vaccine's approval, many will ...

Children at the Jersey Shore are less likely to be fully vaccinated than others across the state. Here's why that worries doctors.

On an August morning in 1949 when I was 6, I got out of bed and collapsed on the floor. By evening, I was paralyzed from the neck down and ...

Thanks to Dan Rodricks for highlighting the efforts of one childhood polio survivor to remind us of the importance of ...

Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda have a message for senators who may be entertaining the idea of ...

Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda have a message for senators who may be entertaining the idea ...

My mom's memories of her paralytic polio are just one reason I worry about progress Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could undo, writes ...

Only by working together to find compromise on parts of the president-elect’s agenda can we make progress for Americans who ...

In media interviews and countless speeches, Dr. Gallo, emeritus director of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, ...

As 2025 begins, public health experts warn of rising threats from infectious diseases like bird flu, measles, polio, and mpox ...

Anti-science attitudes have historically encumbered societal progress in the U.S., often with serious ramifications, writes.