Public-health officials were wrong to oversell the benefits of the Covid vaccine and then push for sweeping mandates based on their exuberant claims. But it would be a mistake to use those failures as ...

Used for more than 50 years, the combined MMR vaccine is safe and effective at protecting people from measles, mumps and rubella, tests show. The MMR vaccine was combined to make it easier for people ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

As anti-vaccine sentiment rises nationally, prominent people have proposed splitting combination vaccines into individual shots. For example, the new acting director of the Centers for Disease Control ...