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The Annals of Internal Medicine has refused US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s demand to retract a study that found that vaccines containing the adjuvant aluminium hydroxide did not increase ...

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Broward County saw a dramatic drop in its vaccination rate for kindergartners in 2025. The declining rate reflects the heated ...

In Washington, 3,578 kindergarten students, or 4.8% of the 74,896 enrolled, had an exemption during the 2024-25 school year.

Federal funding cuts to immunization efforts and a new law that allows exemption forms to be downloaded, instead of mailed, ...

Illinois researchers, including some working on vaccines for cancer and rare diseases, worry the federal government turning ...

It is an undeniable fact — true science — that vaccines have been miraculous in preventing terrible diseases from polio to tetanus to measles. Numerous studies have shown they do not cause autism.

Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago in December, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at ...

Opponents of Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s executive order allowing for religious exemptions to West Virginia’s compulsory immunization law for school-age children were dealt a blow last month when their ...