The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18, including Covid, previously on the schedule.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the number of vaccines recommended for all children. The action follows a presidential memorandum ordering a review of the U.S. schedule.

Federal officials today announced an unprecedented overhaul of the US childhood immunization schedule, paring the number of universally recommended immunizations from 17 to 11.

In the midst of what could be one of the most severe flu seasons on record, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CDC has ceased recommending all children get vaccinated for the seasonal flu, along with five other previously recommended vaccines.

The Trump administration wants to revamp U.S. childhood vaccination recommendations to align with some other peer nations, including one tiny country in northern Europe.

CDC updates the childhood vaccine schedule after an international review. Here's what changed, what didn't, and what parents need to know now.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the CDC is making changes effective immediately to the recommended childhood immunization schedule, labeling some vaccines for only “certain high-risk groups” or recommending that parents seek the advice of a physician before getting the shot.

Skepticism around the safety of vaccines has led to falling measles vaccine rates among children, but data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows adverse reactions have been reported far less for the measles vaccine than for the ...