Measles cases have spread across the country this year, with the state of New York now facing its worst outbreak in decades. Since last fall, more than 150 measles cases have been recorded in Rockland ...

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Sept 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Thursday that providers and states administering vaccines to children through the government's free access program must ...

The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo Courtesy/U.S. General Services Administration) CHARLESTON — The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. As the largest measles outbreak in two decades drags on in the Upstate, an effort to keep children who haven’t been vaccinated due to religious reasons out of school was effectively ...

A sharp debate over religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates is intensifying across the nation, just as vaccination rates of schoolchildren are declining and childhood diseases such as measles ...

North Carolina has little sympathy for taxpayers that miss filing deadlines, but a new law eases the potential repercussions for property owners otherwise qualifying for religion-based tax exemptions.

The Bloc Québécois said removing the exemption was necessary to help prosecute rising hateful and antisemitic rhetoric, often made under the guise of exempted religious speech. “If we are serious ...

Religious exemptions for school vaccinations in New Jersey have more than doubled in the past six years. The overall vaccination compliance rate for New Jersey students has dropped from 95% to 91% ...