Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grant Vander Vorst is at the epicenter of vaccine hesitancy in South Dakota: Just 56% of incoming kindergartners in Faulk County, ...

Vaccine advisers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meet today and tomorrow, and they're expected to question how pediatricians vaccinate children for more than a dozen diseases.

Dozens of readers have recently written with questions about travel precautions amid infectious-disease outbreaks. I wanted ...

Falling vaccination rates among U.S. children may make local outbreaks of highly contagious measles cases increasingly common -- and that's bringing parents into clinicians' offices with plenty of ...

Following several outbreaks of measles in England, parents are being encouraged to protect their children from serious infections, including measles and whooping cough, by making sure their child ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee is expected to stop recommending universal vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B and question the childhood vaccination schedule when they meet Thursday.

A nurse readies an MMR vaccine at Sanford Children's Hospital in Sioux Falls. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) Grant Vander Vorst is at the epicenter of vaccine hesitancy in South Dakota: Just ...