The CDC's revamped Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) discussed shrinking the childhood vaccination schedule and setting up a working group to assess the safety of aluminum adjuvants ...

The Ministry of Health and Social Services has officially launched an intensive polio vaccination campaign across the Kavango East and Kavango West regions this week. The emergency response aims to ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has directed HHS and the CDC to conduct a review of childhood vaccine recommendations abroad, aiming to align U.S. guidance with best practices from “peer, developed countries.” ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...

• Today’s meeting: Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, instead recommending individual ...

ALIGNING THE CHILDHOOD VACCINE SCHEDULE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum to begin the process to align U.S. core childhood vaccine ...

Update: The CDC's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for babies whose mothers test negative for the virus. Read the latest here. Our ...

• Today’s meeting: Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just wrapped up the first day of a two-day meeting that could lead to a major change to the childhood ...

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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A federal vaccine advisory committee on Thursday voted to delay a decision on whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. The Advisory Committee on Immunization ...