The NSW Government today announced the continued roll out of Meningococcal vaccines against the A, C, W and Y strains for 15 — 19-year-olds.

Thousands of NSW students are being targeted with a further run of meningococcal vaccines.

A 66-year-old man is the sixth meningococcal case to be found in Tasmania, announced a day ahead of mass public vaccination sessions in Hobart's north.

Earlier this year two gerrymandering cases came before the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court bypassed the opportunity to rule on the partisan practice. In Maryland, Republican voters were the losers and in Wisconsin Democratic voters lost. In both instances, the court declined to make a decision on…

After seven months, tens of thousands of dollars, and three court rulings, Michigan voters were officially given the opportunity to...

If voters approve, redistricting power would be transferred from state lawmakers to an independent commission.

According to a new poll commissioned by the Texas Public Health Coalition, the vast majority of Republican voters in Texas want children to be vaccinated before they begin school, the Houston Chronicle reports.

The vast majority of Republican voters in Texas want children to be vaccinated before they begin school, according to a new poll commissioned by the Texas Public Health Coalition, The Houston Chronicle reports.

A new nationwide initiative calls for campaign finance reform, stronger voting rights, and an end to gerrymandering

Texas' 10th is a highly gerrymandered district that stretches from Houston to Austin. The problem is, those pesky progressives keep moving into it! This is a district that could very well go Blue. If we do everything we can to make it so.

Newly released emails strip aside wonkish debates and make it extremely clear that politicians are doing all they can to choose their voters.

Children get phony protection but officials aren’t held accountable.

Bill Clinton pleaded with the world Friday not to abandon the campaign to rein in the HIV virus which still kills nearly a million people every year and infects twice as many. The world must “hold the line” until a vaccine or cure is found, or face “calamitous” consequences, the US ex-president told the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam “There can be no Brexit in the fight against AIDS,” said the founder of the …

While no illnesses have been reported, millions of Chinese are outraged by a pharmaceutical company's corner-cutting.

GOP aides and consultants boasted of cramming "Dem garbage" into gerrymandered districts in 2011.

Chinese state media report a total of 15 people have been detained so far in a growing scandal over the faking of records by a rabies vaccine maker.

Experts and campaigners have been calling for equal access to the jab, which is already routinely offered to teenage girls and is free up until they turn 18

Gerrymandering doesn't exactly get breathless coverage; perhaps it would gain traction as a Twitter beef.

Executives at Chinese vaccine company taken in by police for questioning as Chinese Premier tries to mollify public anger over the industry that's been plagued by corruption.

Chinese citizens and officials are outraged over the discovery that hundreds of thousands of vaccines recently administered to children in the country were faulty. What? How could that happen? An investigation has been launched by China's Food and Drug Administration into the practices of vaccine manufacturer Changsheng Biotechnology Co., after it was discovered that the firm allegedly violated safety standards and subsequently sold more than 250,000 doses of common immunizations for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough. Earlier this month, it was discovered that Changsheng had also falsified the production records of a rabies shot the company had developed, but none of those vaccines made it to market. Meanwhile, frustrated parents are left waiting to hear what steps to take next, not knowing what type of reaction the impacted children might have to further boosters now that the shots have been deemed ineffective. So, now what? Five of the company's executives have been taken into custody by …

China's regulator orders a vaccine manufacturer to recall all its products after finding it violated standards in the production of a rabies vaccine.

Premier Li Keqiang called for an investigation into “the entire process chain of all vaccine production and sales,” after a drug company allegedly sold more than 250,000 doses that failed to meet safety standards.

Democrats around the country are mobilizing around the issue of gerrymandering. But whether it's enough to excite voters who often sit out midterm elections is another question.

A conservative group says that creating an independent redistricting commission amounts to revising the state constitution and can't be done via a ballot...

Vaccines need to be kept cold to remain effective. A lack of power in remote areas makes this difficult, reducing the reach of the life-saving pharmaceuticals.

A jury in Texas ruled that a woman should have her child taken from her custody. The jury agreed with prosecutors that the mother had been purposely sabotaging the health and well being of her child. The mother swears that her baby’s deteriorating health was caused by a medical mistake that resulted in a wrongly administered Gardasil vaccine to her infant. First, the facts that everyone seems to agree on: The baby in question, Aniya Blu Vasquez, was born on Aug. 4, 2016. On Dec. 29 of that year, Aniya was mistakenly given a shot of Gardasil meant for her 14-year-old brother. This was in addition to her regular, four-month-old vaccine regimen. Gardasil is a vaccine given to children to prevent the spread of human papillomavirus (HPV,) a sexually transmitted disease. Some conservative groups have argued against laws requiring Gardasil vaccinations, on the grounds that this encourages young children to be sexually …

A child who was not vaccinated against the flu dies of the disease and another 18 children in NSW are hospitalised.

A preventable death from influenza has prompted NSW health authorities to again warn parents to vaccinate their child.

Vaccines have long been considered safe, but many people still believe they are not. A new study shows that people who think they know more than medical experts are more likely to believe that vaccine are not safe.