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The Supreme Court ruled for drug manufacturers Tuesday, deciding that a case brought by a Pennsylvania family who says their child was injured by a vaccine cannot be heard outside of a court created to hear such claims.

Just a slim majority of Americans 52% think vaccines don't cause autism, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll found

Finally, after 13 years of needless controversy, the British Medical Journal determined that Andrew Wakefield's vaccine-autism link constituted an "elaborate fraud."

The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.

Health officials are urging adults to get vaccinated against pertussis and flu as a way protect babies and other vulnerable patients.

A new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a decision last year by a special vaccine court, which concluded vaccines are not to blame for autism.

The latest research puts scientists much closer to finding a HIV vaccine.

A vaccine to prevent breast cancer has shown overwhelmingly favorable results in animals, according to a study by researchers at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute.

The vaccine, Prevnar 13, is effective against more types of bacteria, particularly a virulent subtype called strain 19A.