The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, whose members were replaced earlier this month with individuals hand-picked by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will examine long-held childhood vaccines schedules.

At the first meeting of a controversial new group of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the committee announced new plans to study established vaccine guidelines.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s newly reconstituted vaccine advisory panel said during its first meeting on Wednesday that it would study the schedule of childhood and adolescent immunizations and review the use of older vaccines.