September is national sickle cell awareness month. According to the CDC, sickle cell disease occurs in one out of every 365 African American births. About one in 13 African American babies is born ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Concerns grow for families of immunocompromised and young children as measles exposures increase across the triangle. Shannon Dingle is a single mom of six children living in ...

Lawyers for families who say their immunocompromised children’s health would be threatened if exemptions to vaccine requirements were broadly granted have asked a local judge for a conclusive ruling ...

Which vaccines are contraindicated for immunosuppressed patients? Are there conditions in which those same vaccines would be indicated in an immunosuppressed patient? Are dosages modified? It is ...

Public health researchers define vaccine hesitancy as a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services. A new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior's anti-vaccine agenda is directly impacting immunocompromised people. Colleen Thomas, ...

It would normally be a visit that was off limits as the risk to their health would be too high. But now sick children with a weakened immune system have been able to ‘visit’ a zoo - with the help of a ...