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Experts in vaccines and vaccination — including pediatricians — work together throughout the year to update the Recommended ...

Mercury, the element, is no longer used in thermometers, but it remains at the center of a decades-long debate over vaccine ...

Dr. Buddy Creech, the Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, said both the use of heavy metals in vaccines and their causation of autism are decades-old rumors.

News 2 spoke with medical experts, who addressed concerns about vaccines and autism. Mom Worried If New Rescue Dog Had ...

In their zeal to “Make America Healthy Again,” Trump administration officials are making statements that some advocacy and ...

Kathryn Edwards, MD, professor emeritus at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and a former member ...

Danish researchers followed 1.2 million children and found aluminum in vaccines did not cause autism, asthma, autoimmune ...

Dr. Susan Monarez is slated to be sworn in as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, a ...

In many ways, despite what RFK Jr. and Rep. Paul Gosar claim, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is more friendly to ...