The CDC's vaccine panel has voted to stop vaccinating all newborns against Hepatitis B. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Junior's hand-picked panel made the recommendation Friday ...

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Observed each year on October 15, Global Handwashing Day reminds safety professionals and employees that proper hand hygiene remains one of the simplest, most effective defenses against illness in the ...

Ann Bauer, a researcher who studies Tylenol and autism, felt queasy with anxiety in the weeks leading up to the White House's much-anticipated autism announcement. In August, Bauer and her colleagues ...

The committee that offers vaccine advice to the nation’s top public health agency voted Friday against recommending the updated COVID-19 vaccine to people aged 6 months or older, instead leaving the ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s hand-picked CDC advisory panel is meeting today as it considers changes to vaccine guidelines. NBC News' Aaron Gilchrist reports more details. Senior Scholar at ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhauled vaccine panel voted on Thursday to no longer recommend a combination shot protecting against chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella for young ...

Members also decided not to require a prescription for the COVID-19 vaccine. A panel of vaccine advisers on Friday voted to abandon its previous universal recommendation for annual COVID-19 vaccine ...

Changes affect access to MMRV shots Hepatitis B, COVID-19 vaccine votes expected on Friday Vote raises questions about vaccine coverage ATLANTA, Sept 18 (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers voted on ...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers are poised on Thursday to vote on changes to the nation's childhood immunization schedule, signaling one of the most consequential policy moves under Health ...