Submitted by Julie Steenhuysen Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the Health Secretary of the Chicago (Reuters) Health Secretary Federal changes in vaccine policy encourage medical organizations and several states to formulate their vaccine recommendations for the fall of the respiratory tract disease associated with many healthy children, and pregnant women may lose access to preventive … Read more
At the beginning of an unprecedented meeting of the US Disease Control and Prevention Centers Vaccine Committee, agencies scientists, usually generating and explaining data to inform the votes of this group, were in an unusual position: answering questions and contradictory statements that question the safety and efficiency of approved vaccines. At the Wednesday meeting, agency … Read more
17 members of the Federal Vaccine Advisory Committee said last week that sudden dismissal “left the US vaccine program critically weakened.” The group, who spoke together for the first time after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was dismissed by the Health and Human Services Secretary, said his actions “abolished the institutional knowledge and continuity program that … Read more