Vaccines

The measles vaccine has saved more than 20 million lives since 2000. Getting vaccinated is vital to protect against a disease that still kills about 90,000 people a year worldwide.

Incoming Republican Rep. Mark Green, a physician, suggested vaccines could cause autism during a town hall meeting with his constituents.

Health officials in New York are requiring students who attend Jewish schools in certain zip codes to get the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine amid a measles outbreak that has sickened at least 39 children in the Orthodox Jewish community since October.

A group of protesters gathered outside of Mercy Hospital South in St. Louis Monday to protest the hospital’s policy that requires employees to receive a flu shot -- claiming at least one employee at the facility -- a nurse -- was fired after she refused to be vaccinated on religious grounds.

At least 36 students at a North Carolina school with a heavy anti-vaccine population have been sickened after an outbreak of the chickenpox virus, health officials said.

Low levels of public confidence in vaccines in the European Union are pushing immunization rates down and the number of disease outbreaks up, according to an expert report on Tuesday.

A new study released this week is urging pregnant women to get a flu shot this year. 

Two Air Force physicians who lost their 4-year-old son to complications of the flu last Christmas Eve are hoping their #FluShotsforLeon campaign helps others understand the importance of getting vaccinated against the flu.

100,000 children born in 2015 are estimated to not have had a single vaccine to ward off several diseases alarming health experts.