Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the childhood vaccine schedule, potentially delaying a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine given to newborns by weeks or even years.

The influential vaccine advisory committee that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remade to reflect his views will meet this week to vote on childhood hepatitis B vaccinations for newborns as well as children's immunization schedules.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Thursday called a federal vaccine advisory committee “totally discredited” ahead of a vote on whether to change hepatitis B vaccine guidelines, an issue very close to the Louisiana physician.

A panel of vaccine advisers to the federal government —now embroiled in controversy under the leadership of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — has voted in favor of changing the childhood vaccine schedule for one vaccine — and deferred a ...

A panel of vaccine advisers to the federal government – now embroiled in controversy under the leadership of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – has voted in favor of changing the childhood vaccine schedule. On Thursday afternoon, the Advisory ...

Medical experts say the CDC “is promoting the outdated, disproven idea that vaccines cause autism" and advise parents to consult clinicians for fact-based guidance.

NEW YORK (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.