The leading group of pediatricians in the U.S. continues to recommend kids get shots to protect them from 18 diseases.

The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday released its updated recommendations for what vaccines children should get. It’s a routine revision, hardly different from last year’s recommendations, but ...

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The AAP’s updated vaccine guidance marks a significant break in decades of collaboration with the CDC. Here’s what you need to know. The CDC now recommends hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and meningococcal ...

After the CDC narrowed vaccine recommendations, many doctors say they will look to the American Academy of Pediatrics for vaccine guidance.

Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed the language on a vaccine safety webpage, appearing to legitimize the long-disproven link between childhood vaccines and autism.

Dr. Ralph Abraham, a vaccine skeptic, has been appointed principal deputy director of the CDC. CDC employees and Georgia doctors say the move has created confusion and concern about future vaccine ...

The CDC changed its autism–vaccine webpage on Wednesday and wrote that a link between vaccines and autism has been “ignored,” even though many studies show no link. For many years, the CDC tried to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently reduced the number of recommended childhood vaccines.

We're learning more about a rare bacterial disease that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning doctors to look out for. “Having cases of melioidosis occur in people in the ...

Experts claim that the change is not based on scientific evidence and will result in more cases of hepatitis B and downstream effects, including cancer and cirrhosis. A vaccine advisory group to the ...

It probably won’t immediately become more difficult for children to get the vaccines that the federal government removed from its universal recommendations. Insurance companies so far say that they ...