Victorian health authorities are on high alert for diphtheria and Ebola following outbreaks elsewhere.
Vaccination rates have fallen for a fifth year in a row,leaving children unprotected against resurgent diseases,including measles and whooping cough.
Meet the Australian medicos taking the fight to an entirely preventable cancer killing young women,leaving children motherless and causing intergenerational damage.
The US president said his country recommends “far more” shots to children than necessary,hours after an influential vaccine advisory panel voted to lift a long-standing recommendation for all newborns receive a vaccine for hepatitis B.
Florida’s surgeon-general has compared vaccination to slavery. It’s part of a war on science which may cost many lives.
As I sat in a Perth doctor’s surgery with my young son in 2022,I had no idea how serious his condition was. And it turns out,we’re not alone.
Many babies are heading into winter without full protection against the leading cause of severe respiratory illness in infants.
Distrust in public institutions like the Centres for Disease Control has taken hold in America. We can’t allow our public health system to be undermined in the same way.
Victoria is in the grip of its worst measles outbreak in a decade,as health experts brace for a rise in local transmission after the school holidays.
The federal Health Department is proposing universal testing to ensure everyone knows their hepatitis B status,amid concerns too many people are unaware they have the disease.