The importance of heeding medical science; worry over Trump's executive order against refugee admissions; tax cuts; and more.

A lot of people are staunchly pro-vaccines, some are militant anti-vaxxers and much of the population is wondering what all the fuss is about. If you already have a firm viewpoint on the question of ...

The intense debate over President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F.

The global eradication of smallpox more than 40 years ago was one of the greatest achievements in public health history, vanquishing a cause of death, blindness and disfigurement that had plagued ...

Our Town Columnist and historian Brian Keller also revisits the increasing use of school buses and new limitations to city trash pickup.

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, highlights the painter’s splendid late style in an age when the Spanish royals had ...

Texas health officials now report 48 cases of measles, with 13 hospitalizations, mostly among children. All are unvaccinated ...

When a smallpox epidemic struck Vancouver Island in 1862, colonial authorities set in motion a plan that led to the deaths of ...

Small-pox, suddenly breaking out in some rural district ... and insist on every public school being vaccinated throughout, or such children as have not hitherto been thus guarded.

In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a ...

Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought ... 95 percent of these in children younger than five years. This equates to nine billion life-years saved and, further considering ...

Health officials say there’s a growing number of Hawaiʻi students who are not up-to-date on their vaccines: During the ...