Yet today, their success is under siege — not by scientific challenges, but by deliberate misinformation campaigns led by figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been nominated to oversee the U.S.

When most people think about vaccines, they typically think about humans, however, vaccines also provide important ...

Ben Franklin, whose son died from smallpox, and George Washington both championed this inoculation and realized great successes. Gen. Washington’s adoption of inoculations helped propel the ...

Bergen County's first doctors faced many challenges, including isolation, limited resources and an unpredictable workload.

Experts call the health implications “dire” with some fearing Kennedy could set off a fresh round in the school culture wars ...

This article appears in the February 2025 print edition with the headline “The New Rasputins.” ...

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Though he captured Montreal, Montgomery was hampered by distance, inefficient supply chains, a smallpox outbreak ... Though Commander-in-Chief George Washington continued to show interest in ...

has been commissioned and will be placed on a hill midway between the White House and the home of George Washington. (The Iwo Jima Memorial's dedication occurred on November 10, 1954). The 1950 ...

One general suggests that the flu poses a bigger threat to American security than China and notes that General George Washington ordered mandatory smallpox inoculation for any soldier who had not ...