The measles outbreak in west Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs,

A mass stabbing in a Los Angeles neighborhood left five people hospitalized on Saturday, officials confirmed. According to LAPD, dispatch received a call around 4:15 p.m. for a stabbing that had just happened in Reseda. Police and crews from the L.A. Fire Department responded to the 600 block of Darby Avenue and found five victims […]

With two measles deaths - both children - in the state, officials struggle to convince communities to vaccinate.