Before the vaccine, the virus spread in a world very different from today’s.

By Teddy Rosenbluth As the United States struggles to contain a resurgence of measles that has swept through swaths of the Southwest, neighboring countries are responding to their own outbreaks.

A CDC senior scientist provided an update on the measles outbreak on Tuesday, while taking reporter questions about the ...

Measles is more than a rash, runny nose and a fever—it can cause brain swelling, blindness and wipe out the immune system's ...

Measles cases have surpassed 650 in an ongoing multistate outbreak, but federal funding cuts could threaten the response.

After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, headed by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, announced a restructuring of the ...

On Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr took to the stage of the Hubert Humphrey Building, which houses the Department of Health ...

He is also a clinical assistant professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Dr. Leung serves as chair of ...

Kansas health officials confirmed five new cases of measles Wednesday in an outbreak in the southwest corner of the state that's linked to Texas and New Mexico.

Parents are encouraged to contact their pediatrician if their child has been exposed to measles or is showing symptoms. Pediatric infectious disease experts are emphasizing the critical importance of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is struggling to keep up with requests for help from states responding to an ongoing measles outbreak, even as a large number of cases are not ...