Increasing vaccination exemptions beyond medical to personal for public school children could risk the state’s leadership in communicable disease prevention, according to one health care expert. “At ...

In Texas, state law allows exemptions in three cases: If a healthcare provider determines that it is not safe for a student to get a certain vaccine, the student is in the U.S. military or the ...

I think if we go backwards on these childhood immunization laws, we are putting children in harm's way. I’ve not heard any valid religious exemptions." This bill would also protect unvaccinated ...

The West Virginia Legislative session is just over 2 weeks old -- and one bill has already become a point of ...

Right now, there are only medical exemptions in the state ... to amend the bill to say parents would have to write a letter for each vaccine. That was shot down. His other amendment was also ...

Bishop Mark Brennan sent a letter to legislators following ... "This bill purports to create an exemption from vaccination requirements permitting religious and philosophical exemptions to ...

According to the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), letters have been sent to parents ... Families can also request a vaccine exemption for certain medical or non-medical reasons.

The Health Secretary's assertion inaccurately characterizes the 2009 government report he cites, according to an NPR review ...

Oregon kindergarteners have long had one of the country’s highest rates of nonmedical vaccine exemptions, now behind only Idaho, Alaska and Utah, according to the federal Centers for Disease ...

The exemptions would not have applied to required school immunizations or health care facilities, or to the South Dakota National Guard if the vaccination was required for federal activation.

As a West Texas measles outbreak continues to worsen, experts are concerned an increase in nonmedical vaccine exemptions among schoolchildren could make such outbreaks more common. Twenty-four ...