The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dropped its advice that kids get an annual flu shot at a time when flu cases and hospitalizations are surging.

The federal government has drastically scaled back the number of recommended childhood immunizations, sidelining six routine vaccines that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability and death.

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.

Every new year, public media reporters across the country bring us some of the new state laws taking effect where they are. Here are six in 2026.

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and motivation.

The defendants owned and operated Overcomers Day Services, LLC, a behavioral health facility that provided Intensive Family Intervention (IFI) services to children enrolled in Georgia Medicaid. Together, they are alleged to have defrauded the Medicaid program of more than $1.4 million.

Atrium Health in Milledgeville and Rome, and Northside hospitals in Canton and Lawrenceville are some of the hospitals that received high ratings.

State senators on the special committee investigating the impacts of social media and artificial intelligence on children say they will file bipartisan legislation to regulate tech use in schools.

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID shots for kids. But public health experts question the agency's analysis.

Patients at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta can now receive cellular and gene therapy treatments for a host of diseases including cancer.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously stated "Vaccines do not cause autism" has been changed to cast doubt on the scientific research that supports the finding.

A botulism outbreak that has sickened more than two dozen babies in 15 states has been linked to ByHeart formula sold nationwide. Here's what to know about it.

An annual report from the March of Dimes points to minor improvements in infant and maternal health outcomes.