It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

These illnesses were the main reason why nearly one in five children in 1900 never made it to their fifth birthday. Over the ...

The government has moved to reassure the public on the safety and efficacy of the Measles-Rubella and Typhoid Conjugate Vaccines (TCV) being rolled out under the national immunization programme, amid ...

I read a recent column of yours in which you said that everyone my age can assume we’ve had measles. I remember having measles in the second grade but have a vague memory of my ...

Dear Dr. Roach: You recently wrote that "nearly everybody born before 1957 had measles and mumps (but not rubella)." I was ...

Getting rubella while pregnant shaped two lives With a mother’s practiced, guiding hand, 80-year-old Janith Farnham helped steer her 60-year-old daughter’s walker through a Sioux Falls art center.

Dear Dr. Roach: You recently wrote that “nearly everybody born before 1957 had measles and mumps (but not rubella).” I was born in the early 1950s, so I fall into this category. A few years ...