Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Critics of those mandates argued that COVID-19 shots, unlike smallpox vaccination, do not prevent disease transmission, so ...

Vaccine skepticism among Americans is widespread, The POLITICO Poll found, indicating that one of Health Secretary Robert F.

An appeals court panel was skeptical of overturning a $7.8 million verdict against the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit ...

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's efforts to change national vaccine policies. The ruling is a setback for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's push to end mandatory school vaccines. The ...

US states have relied on vaccine mandates since the 1800s, when a smallpox vaccine offered the first successful protection against a disease that had killed millions. More than a century later, ...

Florida aimed to become the first state in the nation to end all vaccine mandates. But lawmakers failed to agree on a path ...

Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate ...