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A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Lindsey ...

Vaccine critics like to say that pediatricians profit from vaccines. This report found something very different.

Measles in South Carolina has spread to at least 789 people, surpassing the 2025 West Texas outbreak that sickened 762 people and killed two young girls. The majority of cases remain centered in ...

The Informal Dispute Resolution (IDR) process gives nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, intermediate care facilities, Home and Community-based Service and Texas Home Living waiver ...

Older Americans Act Nutrition Program. The Older Americans Act is a federal program that offers a variety of service programs through the Texas Health and Human Services Commissio ...

The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago.

Last year, starting in January, the United States experienced its largest documented measles outbreak in more than three ...

The plant, announced in May 2025, was slated to open in the first quarter of this year, bringing 170 jobs to Plano’s Legacy ...

As ACF reinstates Defend the Spend for CCDF, Texas childcare providers face new funding checks, but TWC says payments to providers won't change.

But under PAHO's definition of elimination, borders matter. If, for example, the chain of measles that started in the U.S.

With the nation's measles-free status in doubt, this is what local public health officials are doing to bolster immunization ...