Which is more contagious, measles or viral misinformation that infects our understanding of how to stay safe? It’s hard to say, but here are facts you can rely on. Myth: Measles isn’t that serious.

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Massachusetts requires all students to be vaccinated, including those from other countries visiting as part of an exchange program.

Students who are not up to date on their vaccinations will not be allowed back inside of Newton classrooms this fall.

Newton Public Schools students who are not up to date on their vaccinations cannot return to school in the fall, the ...

In the midst of a multi-state measles outbreak, a new poll by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation finds that most U.S. adults (79%) say parents should be required ...

Newton public schools in Massachusetts are enforcing vaccine mandates in response to a chickenpox outbreak, with unvaccinated students to be barred from classes. This follows relaxed mandates during ...

Boston is getting $50,000 from Bloomberg Philanthropies to explore whether traffic light sensors to give school buses ...

Newton Public Schools announced unvaccinated students will not be allowed back in school this fall unless they comply with ...

A person who attended a Shakira concert at MetLife Stadium was infected with measles and may have spread the highly contagious virus at the event, New Jersey health officials said. The person, who ...