The grief of a mother whose child died of whooping cough drives her to urge parents to get their kids vaccinated. Such ...

Pediatricians like me are worried that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisers will make it harder for children to get the ...

After whooping cough struck, ‘she was gone’ Every night, Katie Van Tornhout rubs a plaster cast of a tiny foot, a vestige of the daughter she lost to whooping cough at just 37 days old.

We were interested in comparing, firstly, long-term antibiotics with no antibiotics and, secondly, long-term intramuscular penicillin with long-term oral antibiotics. Participants in the studies we ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran rampant in America.

What’s the treatment for whooping cough? As a bacterial infection, whooping cough can be treated with a course of antibiotics prescribed by a doctor.

Last year, following an outbreak the state had not seen in years, Kentucky ultimately reported 543 cases of whopping cough.