U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week he would send Texas 2,000 doses of the measles, mumps and rubella ...

Pope Francis faces a health setback with a bronchial spasm amid his pneumonia battle, while a Texas outbreak underscores the importance of vaccinations.

The first measles death in the growing outbreak in West Texas was a school-aged child. The child was unvaccinated and had ...

Texas health department data shows that a majority of the reported ... Some patients’ respiratory issues progressed to ...

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center spokesperson Melissa ... Most kids will recover from the measles if they get it, ...

Vaccine hesitancy has been rising for years in the United States. Doctors and parents in one rural county are confronting the ...

The unvaccinated school-age child is the first confirmed fatality in Texas’s worst measles outbreak in three decades.

Turner died Tuesay evening, prompting Texas state Rep. Senfronia Thompson and others to honor him on the House floor Wednesday. Read more: ...

The latest update comes two days after the first death was reported in a school-aged child who lived in the outbreak area.

The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated ...

Measles was considered to be eliminted in the U.S. in 2000, thanks to vaccine developments. But vaccination rates have ...