Unvaccinated residents can receive a measles vaccine at select CVS Pharmacy and MinuteClinic locations across the state WOONSOCKET, R.I., Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As South Carolina public health officials work to stop the spread of measles following the current outbreak in the state, CVS Health® (NYSE:CVS) is offering the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to residents. Both CVS Pharmacy® stores and MinuteClinic® walk-in medical clinics in the area have vaccines available to help protect patients agai ...

Tonight, officials across the country saying the spread of measles is now accelerating. Outbreaks forcing students to go into quarantine and some of them for a second time. Our Emily Aetta joins us now live.And Emily, one of the most serious outbreaks is in South Carolina. >> Yeah, that's right, Tom. Alarm is growing over mounting measles infections in the thick of the holiday season as South Carolina reports more than two dozen new cases just since Friday.The state's epidemiologist today blaming recent gat ...

The CDC's vaccine panel just voted to no longer recommend universal vaccination of newborns with a hepatitis B vaccine. We've been doing this for decades in the United States because babies exposed to hepatitis B right after birth, 90% of them go on to develop chronic liver disease. Hepatitis B is a serious virus.It causes liver inflammation, chronic liver disease, cerosis, and then in many, many cases, early death. That's what we're trying to avoid here. RFK and his ASEP committee members want to take us b ...

jump in. >> No, no, I'm sorry. The debate was impassioned.>> We will see more children and adolescents and adults infected with hepatitis B >> and contentious. >> We have still not had any information or science presented. This is unconscionable.But Secretary Kennedy's handpicked committee of vaccine advisers, >> yes, >> voted to end the recommendation that all infants get the hepatitis B vaccination at birth. Hepatitis B can lead to chronic liver disease, including liver failure and cancer. The vaccines al ...

Joining me now, Dr.. Dmitri Dascalakus, former director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Dr.. Nahed Bedellia, infectious diseases physician and director of Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases. MS Now's Brandy Zadrasni and Ariel Rashef are here with me on set. So, I want to start Brandy by having you take us inside that meeting, what happened and what it means for the vaccination schedules. Yeah. So, I will start by saying these ASIP meetings are us ...

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CDC advisers vote to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newbornshttps://t.co/nDL2ptBn1b ...

A group of CDC advisers is weighing some major policy changes to childhood vaccines. The panel is set to meet tomorrow and Friday to discuss whether to scrap the recommendation that newborns should receive hepatitis B vaccinations. >> Now, the vaccine has been credited with significantly preventing the spread of hepatitis B, but skeptics are questioning whether the benefits of the shot actually outweigh the potential health risks.NBC News medical reporter Dr. . Ashal joins us now. Dr. . Dr.. Sel, let's firs ...

Vaccination against a common virus that causes cervical cancer is highly effective, new research shows, providing welcome evidence for health-care providers as they try to counter misinformation around the shots https://t.co/qXyCRXvfZ2 ...

Republican support for mainstay childhood vaccinations like the measles, mumps and rubella shot is waning, though vaccines remain broadly popular, according to data from Pew Research Center published Tuesday https://t.co/T6cqinaRlc ...