The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated ...

NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with Dr. Ron Cook of Lubbock, Texas, about the measles outbreak in his state – and what the Lubbock Health Department is doing to try to control it.

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping ...

Health experts say there ought to be no outbreaks in the United States. “Each outbreak signifies a lapse in our public health ...

Many Americans are unaware that health aid to other countries directly benefits our own health, economic growth, and physical ...

The Cape Girardeau Health Center director warns that misinformation poses a greater threat to public health than potential ...

A 2019 budget cut to NYC’s state reimbursement rate has curtailed the city’s TB control and other public health services, ...

Robert F. Kennedy, in his first comments on measles as the new Trump health secretary, says the outbreak is not unusual. 'We ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...

As the Trump administration targets federal public health agencies for mass firings and censorship, a growing outbreak of the airborne measles virus is raging across west Texas, imperilling the USA's ...

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne ...