measles

Pediatric infectious disease specialist Jana Shaw, MD, explains new concerns about measles. Social worker Lauren Angelone tells about her focus on caregivers. Breast surgeon Lisa Lai, MD, discusses when mastectomy may help reduce breast cancer risk.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the number of measles cases has grown to over 700 and is the worst outbreak in decades.New…

Doctors in Central New York are keeping a close eye on the measles outbreaks in the New York City area, because they say it’s not inconceivable that the…

An advisory about the risk of measles was issued by the New York State Department of Health in October after an international traveler from Israel who was…

College campuses are increasingly coping with outbreaks of measles and mumps, two viruses for which children are commonly vaccinated.In the case of…

At least 25,000 upstate New York school children are not fully vaccinated against communicable diseases. So New York doctors have been using social media…

Health officials in central New York are not overly worried about an outbreak of the measles virus similar to what other parts of the country are seeing,…

Measles was said to have been eliminated from the United States in 2000. Continuous transmission of the contagious disease was halted, thanks to…