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The Association of Public Health Laboratories sent a letter on Friday asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

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The strongest set of evidence to date indicates that people who had a shingles vaccine had significantly lower odds of developing dementia later in life.

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Physicians must work to build trust with patients who think vaccines and other medical practices are scarier than the ...

An insidious but lesser-known consequence of even a mild measles infection is that it kills the very cells that remember ...