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‘Risking children’s lives’: Senator Angela Alsobrooks blasts RFK Jr. after CDC panel rejects Hepatitis B vaccine

The Trump administration has rocked the medical community after an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the CDC, voted to end the recommendation of the hepatitis B vaccine shot for newborns at birth for the first time since 1991. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to end the 34-year-old recommendation 8 to 3 on Friday, affirming U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, a medical conspiracy theorist who has long pushed for […]

todayDecember 5, 2025

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Trump’s first surgeon general blasts RFK Jr. for canceling mRNA vaccine contracts: ‘It’s dangerous’

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s decision to cancel $500 million worth of federal contracts for developing mRNA vaccines swiftly drew condemnation, including from a former Trump surgeon general. “I’ve tried to be objective & non-alarmist in response to current HHS actions – but quite frankly this move is going to cost lives,” said Jerome Adams, who served as U.S. surgeon general during President Donald Trump‘s first term in office. He added, “mRNA technology has […]

todayAugust 6, 2025 1

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Trump says he’s a ‘believer’ in polio vaccine, and other news conference takeaways

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged to look at bringing down the costs of pharmaceuticals and expressed doubts that his daughter-in-law might be Florida’s next senator. Trump held forth for over an hour, the first time he took questions from reporters since winning the election. The event harkens back to his long-winding news conferences from his first term and is […]

todayDecember 17, 2024