WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading U.S. health official on Sunday urged people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states and as the United States is at risk of losing its measles…

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of…

NEW YORK (AP) — A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health…

ATLANTA (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers debated Friday whether to recommend this fall’s COVID-19 vaccinations even as people in many states report frustration getting them. The Food and Drug Administration recently put…

ATLANTA (AP) — The Trump administration’s new vaccine advisers on Thursday endorsed this fall’s flu vaccinations for just about every American but threw in a twist: Only use certain shots free of an ingredient antivaccine…

U.S. health officials are terminating a $590 million contract with Moderna Inc. to develop vaccines for bird flu, a major setback for the company that’s also facing additional government scrutiny over immunizations. Moderna said in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely approved under a major new policy shift unveiled Tuesday by the Trump administration. Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements…

Over the last nine years, there have been 17 cases of bovine rabies in Kansas. In several of those years, cattle were the most common domestic species diagnosed with rabies in our state. Any bovine…

WYANDOTTE COUNTY — Although Wyandotte County has yet to see a reported measles outbreak, public health officials are readying public guidance and offering vaccine services as the disease inches north from southwest Kansas. As of…

LAWRENCE — Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Larson is convinced building blocks of the Scopes trial — a showdown between human evolutionary biologists and fundamentalists beholden to creationism — remains relevant as activists work to build…