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"This resulted in $7.8 million in grants diverted from HHS programs intended to advance the health and well-being of the people they serve," said Tamara Lilly.
HHS announced on Wednesday that it has adopted a recommendation from a CDC committee to remove thimerosal from all influenza vaccines.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formally accepted recommendations that would require all vaccine manufacturers to discontinue using the preservative thimerosal in flu vaccines.
HHS estimates the change could result in American citizens receiving an additional $374 million per year in Head Start services.
After more than two decades of delay, this action fulfills a long-overdue promise to protect our most vulnerable populations from unnecessary mercury exposure,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., s
The GOP-led Michigan House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to force the testimony of the Department of Health and Human Services' director.
The decision follows last month’s vote of the CDC’s revamped vaccine advisory committee. Thimerosal, mostly removed from vaccines decades ago, has long been a target of anti-vaccine advocates for unfounded links to autism and adverse health outcomes.
The Trump administration is challenging a federal judge’s order temporarily protecting some Planned Parenthood affiliates from Medicaid cuts in the president’s multi-trillion-dollar tax and spending law.
Numerous advocacy organizations are sounding the alarm over a recent HHS notice that restricts access to federal benefits for undocumented immigrants, as well as for those lawfully present.
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