This explainer discusses what ACIP does, how it makes recommendations, and how administration actions may affect Americans’ ...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is demanding Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr “immediately” fire a key ally from his role as vaccine advisor on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

This particular case concerns access to COVID vaccinations for two vulnerable groups, pregnant women and children, but more ...

The nation's top medical organizations are speaking out after U.S. health officials told them they will no longer help ...

It is not clear yet how many of the 30 organizations that assist ACIP are prohibited — or will ultimately be barred — from ...

The hepatitis B vaccine, introduced in 1981, has "a fairly long track record" of safety and efficacy, said Jesse Hackell, MD, ...

In a further jolt to the process of reviewing and recommending vaccines at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another group of outside advisers to the agency was abruptly sidelined ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had fired the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ...

The USPSTF, created by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 1984, was designed to make evidence-based recommendations on clinical preventive services to prevent later harms from health ...

U.S. health officials have told more than a half-dozen of the nation’s top medical organizations that they will no longer ...

All 17 experts from the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices who were replaced last month by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy Jr. endorsed the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that the U.S. population only receive influenza vaccines without the mercury-based preservative ...