Sir Sandy Macara, former chairman of the British Medical Association, believes that children should only be allowed to start school if they have been vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella, i.e. had the MMR jab.

The costs that health care providers are charged and reimbursed for childhood vaccines vary widely, and the high cost of some immunizations is leading to significant financial strain for some physicians, according to a pair of new studies from the University of Michigan Health System.

5 million children each year to receive their first shot of pentavalent vaccine

With close monitoring and a few standard precautions, nearly all children with known or suspected vaccine allergies can be safely immunized, according to a team of vaccine safety experts led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

There is always lots of debate about pediatric vaccinations. The latest study from Pediatrics tells us that the needle length that has been recommended by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is wrong and in many cases IS TOO LONG.

Researchers have found that vaccination against influenza strains seem to be more effective in a semi-urban population than in a rural population of schoolchildren in Gabon, Africa, according to an article in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, published by the University of Chicago Press in partnership with the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Childhood vaccination for the rubella virus may have also almost entirely eliminated an inflammatory eye disease from the U.S.-born population, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.