“Shared decision‑making” sounds benign, even progressive. Who would object to clinicians and families talking through risks and benefits together? Yet as it is currently being applied to vaccination, “shared...
For many years, the CDC’s vaccine-safety pages stated clearly that vaccines do not cause autism and used that phrase as a concise summary of a large evidence base. The earlier material explained that multiple large...
As of July 9, 2025, the United States is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in decades, with 1,288 confirmed cases reported across 39 states and jurisdictions. The outbreak is particularly severe in Texas and New...
Giving parents access to a website containing information about the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is the most cost-effective way of increasing its uptake, new University of Leeds research has found. Informing...
U.K. public health officials are racing to contain a rash of measles outbreaks among older British children that threatens to spread the highly contagious disease throughout the country. The budding epidemic has been...
Two million children risk catching measles as a result of the MMR scare, doctors warned yesterday. They said the outbreak in Wales could spread to London, where nearly half of the capital’s children are not vaccinated...