The individual—whose name, age, and sex were not released by local authorities—is the second person to die from the virus ...

When our health secretary responds to the first measles deaths in decades with a jumble of pseudoscience and platitudes, we’ve reached a moral crossroads in public health.

A historic measles outbreak in West Texas is just short of 200 cases, Texas state health officials said Friday, while the ...

Dozens of studies have failed to find evidence of a link. The decision to re-examine the question comes as a measles outbreak ...

Changing attitudes have had an impact: Vaccination rates among children born in 2020 and 2021 declined by between 1.3 and 7.8 percentage points for recommended shots, compared with children born in ...

In the midst of a growing measles outbreak in Texas that has killed one child, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have repeatedly raised the idea that autism could be linked to ...

Research does show that vitamin A can help children with deficiencies after they’re infected with measles, but the vast majority of children in the United States do not fall into that category. To ...

As head of the HHS, Kennedy oversees the CDC, an agency at the forefront of public health policy. His influence is especially significant given his history of questioning the safety of the measles, ...

Amid measles outbreaks in Texas and New Mexico that have killed two unvaccinated people including a healthy six-year-old, ...

Almost every single case of measles is in someone who’s not vaccinated. I think you’re the perfect person to say sorry," the outspoken Democratic advocate said.