If measles does make a meaningful comeback, it would imply public health is sliding back as we head into the future. We don't want to go there.

Health officials say 118 cases of measles have been reported in the United States so far this year -- the highest number this early in the year since ...

Yesterday, February 2nd 2010, respected medical journal The Lancet came to the long-overdue conclusion that a "study" which included a sample size far...

We need a thousand doctors like Andrew Wakefield, who are willing to risk their careers and reputations in order to find out what is happening to our children and how to heal them.

For over a decade, I've relentlessly searched for answers to the connections I believe exist between my son's autism and vaccines he received.

Washington loves to dump its bad news on a Friday afternoon, and today it confirmed that one percent of American children (and by extension, perhaps 1-in-58 boys) has an autism spectrum disorder.

I am an internist, and I know many important things about vaccinations, but the bottom line is they save lives. And there's no evidence that they cause autism.

It has been a full month since the Sunday Times article ran on Dr. Wakefield's autism research, and Wakefield has remained relatively silent about it - until now.

The Inter-Agency Autism Coordinating Committee has voted to recommend earmarking millions of dollars in research funds to study the possible role of vaccines in the causation of autism.

The problem is, there is simply no such thing as "scientific consensus" when it comes to vaccines and autism.