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BMA rolls out festive season plan with drones, body cams, cross-border partnerships

Commissioner Dr Micheal Masiapato has unveiled an expanded Festive Season Operational Plan that will see the deployment of ...

R.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s

The shift would mean fewer shots recommended for children. But a Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the ...

RFK Jr. wants to scrutinize the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long

Federal officials are questioning the safety of the vaccine series children receive. Here’s the story of how the childhood ...

Michigan's top doc: State should no longer follow CDC vaccine schedule

Michigan's chief medical executive split with the CDC Thursday, issuing a standing recommendation to no longer follow federal ...
Scientific AmericanOpinion

Trump Officials Keep Comparing the U.S.’s Vaccine Schedule to Denmark’s. They’re Missing the Point

The U.S.’s and Denmark’s health systems are starkly different, so it makes sense that their vaccination schedules would ...
Healthline

Children's Vaccine Schedule

Your child needs vaccines to protect them from serious illnesses. Researchers and experts develop and maintain a vaccine schedule to ensure children have all recommended vaccines at the appropriate ...
ABC News

CDC vaccine advisory committee meets to discuss hepatitis B shot, childhood immunization schedule

The panel may vote to change the hepatitis B birth dose recommendation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the ...
Detroit News

RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule

Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots on the ...
STAT

Why comparing the U.S. vaccine schedule to European countries’ is a red herring

Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School. If any ambiguity remained about the ultimate goal of the ...
The New York Times

Vaccine Committee May Make Significant Changes to Childhood Schedule

Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to delay hepatitis B shots and discuss revising the use of other vaccines. By ...
The Washington Post

Trump orders review of childhood vaccine schedule, calls U.S. an ‘outlier’

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump on Friday ordered federal health officials to review the childhood immunization schedule and consider recommending fewer shots to align with other developed countries.
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CDC's ACIP set to discuss hepatitis B vaccines, childhood immunization schedule with new chairman

As vaccine policy uncertainty reaches a new level in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) team of vaccine advisors is set to deliberate later this week on childhood ...