Here are five things parents and caregivers should know about the new vaccination schedule changes for children. The new guidelines no longer universally recommend children receive vaccines for rotavirus, hepatitis A and hepatitis B, meningitis (meningococcal disease), RSV (respiratory syncytial virus), COVID, and influenza (the flu).

The U.S. is changing which vaccines are recommended for children, slashing the number of shots endorsed for everyone and leaving more decisions in the hands of parents and pediatricians.

Federal health officials now recommend that children be routinely inoculated against 11 diseases, not 17, citing standards in other wealthy nations.

The CDC announced on Monday it is changing the childhood immunization schedule, removing the universal recommendation for multiple shots.

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to improve children’s health. But his sweeping changes to the nation’s childhood vaccine schedule will do the opposite, health experts warn.

Oregon will continue to chart its own course when it comes to childhood vaccines and stick to recommendations backed by the nation’s leading medical groups, state health officials said Tuesday.

Clinician involvement important in pediatric influenza vaccinations. After sharp declines during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination rates among children are rising but vaccine hesitancy continues among many parents. Although immunization rates have fallen ...