Yet today, their success is under siege — not by scientific challenges, but by deliberate misinformation campaigns led by figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been nominated to oversee the U.S.

Kennedy Jr. and others, prompts us to examine the history of the vaccine movement, how we got here, and how we should now ...

The concept of vaccines first emerged in the 18th century when Dr. Edward Jenner purposely gave a young boy cowpox. Jenner, ...

The smallpox vaccine is not a form of variola virus, but a preparation of vaccinia (a form of cowpox) virus. In 1796, Edward Jenner, a British physician, demonstrated that infection caused by ...

BRIAN LOCKHART As part of my work, I do a lot of research. Some of that research is about local history. As such, I have spent considerable time at the sites of ghost towns, pioneer cemeteries, ...

And regular polling carried out by YouGov suggests adults are increasingly likely to say that vaccines have harmful side ...

Take one of the greatest ideas of all time – Edward Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccine. I always assumed that as soon as Jenner made his breakthrough, it was instantly celebrated and ...

Experts call the health implications “dire” with some fearing Kennedy could set off a fresh round in the school culture wars ...

Just a stone's throw from the hectic streets of hotspots like Bibury lies this charming town still in the Cotswolds vicinity, ...