In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

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.

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 ...

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

Measles was said to be eradicated in the year 2000 in the United States but continues to spread through the present day.  As ...

The person visited several places in Boston while infectious, the city of Boston said, adding that any individuals who were ...

Health officials have confirmed that a person infected with measles arrived in Miami earlier in June from Boston. The ...

Health officials in Boston said someone infected with measles recently flew to South Florida.According to the Massachusetts ...

Measles-infected person traveled from Boston to Miami, triggering public health alerts and a call for vaccinations.