A private school in Ernakulam, Kerala, has been closed until March 16, 2025, after five students showed meningitis symptoms.

While the vast majority of parents vaccinate their children, misinformation has caused more parents to question the routine ...

Early in my career as a pediatrician, it would not be unusual to get a phone call in the middle of the night from the worried parent of a child with a high fever. I got out of bed, met the family in ...

With over half the cells in the human body being bacterial rather than human, and over 99% of the genes in the human body ...

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate confirmed longtime vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump's new U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, in charge of protecting the health ...

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee could vote as soon as Tuesday on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services, the cabinet position in charge ...