Your child needs vaccines to protect them from serious illnesses. Researchers and experts develop and maintain a vaccine schedule to ensure children have all recommended vaccines at the appropriate ...

Fifty-two children have died of the flu so far this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday, seemingly putting pediatric deaths on track to outpace last season's ...

The United States is in the midst of one of its worst flu seasons in decades, data show. Cases and hospitalizations are surging, driven by a mutated influenza A variant, H3N2 "subclade K." Experts ...

Learn about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for kids, the possible side effects, and the benefits of vaccination.

Every year, Dr. Molly O'Shea's pediatric practices would hold drive-thru clinics in the parking lot to make it as easy as possible for busy parents to quickly get their kids their annual flu and COVID ...

A meeting of advisers chosen by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine recommendations ended abruptly Thursday with ...

Christine Wear’s voice trembles talking about the upcoming flu season. “Anxieties are high,” she said. “We’re trying to navigate what life should look like without being in a bubble.” Wear’s son, ...

Children receive roughly 30 vaccine doses before age 18, doctors say. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at a Senate hearing on Thursday that children receive up to 92 ...