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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a growing number of kids getting religious exemptions from required school vaccinations, Maryland still vaccinates a ...

Fourteenth Circuit Judge Michael Froble, seen here at a July hearing, ruled Monday afternoon in Raleigh County Circuit Court to consolidate two cases involving West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s ...

The Hubert H. Humphrey Building, the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Photo Courtesy/U.S. General Services Administration) CHARLESTON — The ...

West Virginia public health officials acknowledge that families seeking religious exemptions to school vaccination policies do not have to elaborate on their beliefs. All that families seeking such ...

Measles cases have spread across the country this year, with the state of New York now facing its worst outbreak in decades. Since last fall, more than 150 measles cases have been recorded in Rockland ...

A Raleigh County judge handling a high-profile case about religious exemptions to mandatory school vaccinations has filed an order for West Virginia’s newly named acting state health officer to ...

"It is an attack on religious freedom," said Chris Healy, executive director of the Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference.

Religious exemptions for school vaccinations in New Jersey have more than doubled in the past six years. The overall vaccination compliance rate for New Jersey students has dropped from 95% to 91% ...

Religious exemptions spiked in 2019-2020 when 2.7% of kindergartners, or 1,641 kids, opted out of vaccination requirements. The COVID-19 pandemic did not go into full swing until spring 2020, so those ...