Uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, and potentially other vaccines, may worsen in the coming weeks and months. It is possible parents will continue to see shifting guidance, ...

New research suggests the COVID-19 vaccine could help children with eczema stay healthier overall. Vaccinated kids had lower ...

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Walensky is a professor at Harvard Medical School and served as the 19th director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Once clinical trials showed that Covid-19 vaccines were safe and ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said COVID-19 vaccines remain an option for healthy children when parents and doctors agree that it is needed, stopping short of Health Secretary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AAP and CDC vaccine recommendations have been mostly harmonized for 30 years. AAP guidance now deviates from the ...

Anti-vaccine advocate and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unilaterally revoked federal recommendations for healthy children and pregnant people to get COVID-19 booster shots. The abrupt ...

The federal government has removed COVID-19 vaccines from the list of shots recommended for healthy pregnant women and children. The change is raising concerns among some independent experts. The ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced ...

In move that pushes back against new vaccine guidelines by the Trump administration, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended Tuesday that all children between 6 and 23 months old receive ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s August, and parents and caregivers are frantically preparing their kids for a new school year by buying supplies, filling out forms and meeting teachers. This year, many ...