A strong defence against preventing measles in the community has been the decades-long immunization program in local schools. Local public health epidemiologist Laura Zettler said vaccination coverage ...

However, SPPHD announced a second confirmed case in Gaines County days later. "Both cases are in unvaccinated school-age children who were hospitalized in Lubbock and have since been discharged," ...

As secretary of the HHS, Kennedy would oversee major health agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the ...

In his second day of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of ...

The man who hopes to be President Trump’s Health secretary says he needs to see data showing vaccines are safe, but dismissed evidence shown by a Republican senator.

After reportedly being eradicated from the U.S. in 2000, there were four times more outbreaks of measles in the U.S. in 2024 ...

The cases have led the Texas Department of State Health Services to issue a health alert for Texas. According to Newsweek, ...

At least four cases of measles, including two involving school-aged children, have been reported in Texas.

Measles spreads through the air. You don't even have to rub up on someone to catch it, which makes things much worse. Measles ...

Two of the four cases are in Lubbock, which hasn’t seen a case in more than 20 years. Measles vaccination rates in Texas have ...

Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the northeastern part of the state, with 67 active cases since 2024, marking one of the largest outbreaks in recorded history of the ...