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Inside the unusual, RFK-appointed panel that's deciding on childhood vaccines
The ACIP meeting was the first time the eight new members convened since they were appointed by Kennedy on June 11.
Hiltzik: Key GOP senator finally challenges RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine policies — but he's too late
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a doctor, abandoned his good judgment to confirm Robert F. Kennedy as Health and human Services ...
Anxieties converge over newly remade CDC advisory panel
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule
The move could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States.
CDC vaccine committee meets despite bipartisan criticism
A key vaccine-focused committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met Wednesday despite bipartisan ...
CDC nominee defends Kennedy shakeup of vaccine advisers
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent move to replace a federal panel of vaccine advisers ...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel to review shots for children
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly remade federal vaccine advisory panel will examine the cumulative effect of the childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule, ...
CDC nominee deflects questions over Kennedy’s vaccine decisions
Susan Monarez declined to distance herself from the handling of the U.S. measles outbreak by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
CDC’s overhauled vaccine panel presses on despite concerns
Public health community has raised concerns about how the newly-picked vaccine panel may influence decisions going forward.
Cassidy, in break with Kennedy, calls for vaccine meeting delay
The chair of the Senate health committee has called for a delay in this week’s meeting of a panel of vaccine advisers.
RFK Jr.'s panel gives update on reviewing childhood vaccine schedule
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeated that not enough childhood vaccines have been tested in clinical trials against a placebo.
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New-look ACIP, down a member and homing in on ‘long-settled safety topics,’ kicks off controversial vaccine meeting
In opening Wednesday’s meeting, newly appointed ACIP chair Martin Kulldorff, Ph.D., leaned into the controversy surrounding U.S. vaccine policy following the COVID-19 pandemic and, more recently, ...