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 ...

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

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

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 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 ...

The struggling Boston Red Sox could be getting some offensive help soon.Manager Alex Cora said Masataka Yoshida would start a ...

Make it routine. Hand out vaccine consent forms at check-in or during the nurse portion of the visit. This normalizes the ...

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RFK Jr. announced a halt to all U.S. funding for the global Gavi vaccine alliance. One expert calls it a "travesty and a ...