AAP argues that nonmedical vaccine exemptions "erode the safety of school environments" and limit the public health value of ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics maintains that schools and day cares must require proof of vaccinations for children to attend. Just five states have laws that accept only medical exemptions.

An updated policy statement from the AAP reiterated the organization's support for laws that require certification of ...

Throughout the country, pediatricians say anxious parents are concerned about access to routine childhood immunizations, ...

Vaccination rates have been falling across the United States for years. In the past decade, California, Connecticut, Maine and New York have removed such exemptions in an effort to drive up ...

Dozens of pediatricians came to Capitol Hill seeking continued access to routine shots for kids, a month after the Trump ...

The plaintiffs in the case sued under West Virginia's “Equal Protection for Religion Act,” which went into law in 2023.

A West Virginia judge on Thursday allowed the children of three families in one county to attend school this fall without ...

"Among the major world religious traditions, none include scriptural or doctrinal guidelines that preclude adherents from being vaccinated," AAP says. "Are we in some dystopian rerun of 2020?" ...

BOSTON — Religious exemptions for most vaccinations for school-aged children would be banned in Massachusetts under a proposal being considered by state lawmakers, but critics say the move would be ...