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Apr 16, 2014 PM EDT
An experimental oral treatment for measles has just past a key stage in animal testing that has the drug on its way to becoming a potential way to thwart an infection that is particularly deadly to young children and pregnant women.
Mar 19, 2014 PM EDT
Public health officials have confirmed 23 cases of mumps as the result of an outbreak at Ohio State University that started sometime earlier this month.
Mar 16, 2014 AM EDT
The number of measles cases in California state alone has climbed to 32 just this year, fast approaching the state's highest recorded number of infections in over a decade.
Mar 07, 2014 PM EST
The first measles outbreak on the East Coast has been reported in New York City infecting 16 people, according to a public health warning released by the New York City Health Department today.
Mar 03, 2014 PM EST
The Rhode Island Public Health Department has issued a warning this past weekend informing residents of Providence that two hospitals have been potentially exposed to measles, a contagious respiratory disease that is most threatening to children and ..
Campaigns designed to convince parents that vaccinating their child for deadly disease may in-fact be scaring some parents away, according to a new study.