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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 ...
A preservative removed from childhood vaccines 20 years ago is still causing controversy today − a drug safety expert explains
An expert committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted on June 26, 2025, to cease recommending the use of a mercury-based chemical called thimerosal in flu vaccines.
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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 ...
Kennedy’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines
Vaccine advisers recently appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted on Thursday to stop recommending flu ...
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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 ...
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Kennedy's ACIP Backs Monoclonal Antibody for RSV Prevention in Infants
The CDC's newly reconstituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 5-2 in support of infants younger ...
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.
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 ...
Op-Ed: ACIP vaccine committee shakeup is welcome news
Secretary of HHS, Robert Kennedy Jr. announced on June 10 that he would be pressing the reset button on CDC’s Advisory ...