Vaccines are a safe and highly effective way to prevent common diseases that used to seriously harm or even kill infants, children and adults. When children have all their recommended vaccines on ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Chelsea covers the Department of Health and Human Services with a ...

The Vaccines for Children (VFC) program, which provides recommended vaccines at no cost to eligible children, has increased childhood vaccination coverage, but coverage is still lower than among ...

A 30-year-old effort that mobilized families to get routine vaccines for children will save a million lives and trillions of dollars, a new analysis found. The Vaccines for Children program, ...

Tens of thousands of children from low-income families could lose access to education, meals and health care if federal Head Start cash doesn’t resume by Nov. 1 — just as the funding drought stokes ...

The program first began in 1965 and pairs adults age 55 and older with children and youth who have special, exceptional, or at-risk needs.