Dr. William Foege, a leader in the global eradication of smallpox, has died. He was 89. Foege was director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and ...

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Measles, one of the world’s most contagious diseases, was declared eliminated in the U.S. more than 25 years ago. However, ...

The chair of a U.S. government vaccine advisory panel questioned broad vaccine recommendations for polio and other childhood ...

Deaths from heart disease and stroke are declining, but still kill more Americans than any other cause, according to new data ...

A year after President Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the World Health Organization, the process has been ...