Health experts were shocked to see that thimerosal, a preservative that has largely been phased out of U.S. vaccines, was on the ACIP agenda.

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the members of the CDC’s esteemed vaccine advisory panel, medical organizations and experts are looking for alternatives.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued new vaccine recommendations affecting RSV and flu immunizations in 2025. The panel voted to expand RSV protection for ...

ATLANTA — A panel of vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to recommend that no one get a flu vaccine that contains thimerosal — a preservative ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge to an Affordable Care Act provision that set up a panel to recommend preventive care services that insurers must provide at no cost ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the panel and appointed eight new ones. Now, the board is down to just seven. By Apoorva Mandavilli Two weeks ago, Health Secretary ...

RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel to review childhood immunization schedule The move could shift long-standing practices of how and when children are immunized in the United States. Updated June 25, 2025 ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory panel will spend days discussing and voting on an ingredient we barely use anymore.. Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic, has ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly remade federal vaccine advisory panel will examine the cumulative effect of the childhood and adolescent vaccine schedule ...

A federal vaccine panel entirely hand-selected by health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gathered for its first meeting Wednesday—and immediately announced that it ...