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RFK Jr.'s Handpicked Vaccine Panel Unsurprisingly Delivers Antivaccine Conclusions
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' vote ratifies unscientific claims linking a vaccine preservative to autism.
RFK Jr. wins his fight against a rare, safe flu-shot ingredient
ATLANTA - Federal vaccine advisers installed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to effectively remove an ingredient from flu shots, achieving a longtime, ...
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Has a New Approach: Question Everything
Data for a new drug showed it can help keep babies out of the hospital with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Scientists ...
New advisory panel recommends flu shots only if they don’t contain a certain preservative
The advisory panel first voted, with one abstention, to back the usual U.S. recommendation that nearly everyone age 6 months ...
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Trump’s former surgeon general raises concerns about vaccine panel overhauled by RFK Jr.
A shift in a key vaccine advisory committee has raised alarms among public health experts. The ACIP routinely makes ...
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The CDC’s vaccine advisory panel, empowered by RFK Jr., is just getting started
The ACIP, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel newly empowered by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is just getting started ...
CDC panel makes major vaccine decision for 2025—Here’s what’s changing
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued new vaccine recommendations affecting RSV and flu ...
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RFK Jr.’s New CDC Vaccine Board Votes to Recommend Removal of Controversial Preservative From Flu Shots for All Americans
Only one ACIP member dissented, arguing that the risk of flu outweighs any risk from the mercury-based preservative ...
RFK Jr.’s advisers back Merck’s RSV shot for newborns
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee recommended Merck & Co.’s shot to prevent newborns from getting RSV, ...