Longtime Kansas City Star health care reporter Andy Marso almost lost his life to the preventable disease. This puts an ...

A daycare in Miami is closed after two children died just days apart Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau as a writer and ...

Federal health officials upended the immunization schedule for American children this week. These are the diseases affected.

Bradenton, Florida -- A child has tested positive for bacterial meningitis at Manatee Elementary School, according to the Manatee County Health Department. The child attends the Head Start program at ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Health inspectors stopped at a downtown Miami child care center after two young children got sick and died. CBS4's Peter D'Oench spoke with a parent who has a child at the YWCA ...

The flu vaccine was one that was taken off the list. What concerns Burson is that the vaccine can prevent serious illness in ...

Two children are dead and a downtown Miami daycare center is closed. A possible reason for the boys’ deaths: meningitis. Meningitis is a highly contagious bacterial disease that often starts with ...

A vaccine to prevent meningitis in children as young as 10 has been federally approved. But at a cost of about $150, doctors said parents need to weigh the cost and possible side effects against the ...

NEWARK (WABC) -- Health officials in Newark met with parents Tuesday hoping to ease fears after a student died of a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, but a change in information may do more to ...

(BPT) - GSK spokesperson Patsy Schanbaum’s daughter, Jamie, was a college freshman when she contracted meningococcal disease, also known as meningitis. "I got the call that every parent hopes they ...

A retrospective study finds no effect of corticosteroids on overall mortality in children with bacterial meningitis — morbidity was not evaluated. Use of adjuvant corticosteroids for treatment of ...