Public health researchers define vaccine hesitancy as a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services. A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center ...

Polio is a highly contagious virus that can cause paralysis and even death. Thanks to the effectiveness of the polio vaccine, the virus has been eliminated in the United States. However, it's possible ...

It probably won’t immediately become more difficult for children to get the vaccines that the federal government removed from its universal recommendations. Insurance companies so far say that they ...

With Pfizer filing for emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine in children under age 5, some parents are taking notice. But only some: According to a new Kaiser Family Foundation survey, ...

U..S. health officials made broad changes to childhood vaccine recommendations Monday, alarming pediatricians and other medical experts who say they will sow confusion and undermine children's ...