“The CDC and HHS encourage individuals to talk with their healthcare provider on any medical decisions,” a Kennedy spokesman told the Washington Post. WASHINGTON −The Centers for Disease ...

Updates to the CDC's childhood immunization schedule were published late Thursday, following an announcement earlier this week by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the ...

"I couldn't be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule ...

Kennedy Jr. last week. Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos on Tuesday stepped down as co-leader of a CDC work group that helps shape the agency’s COVID-19 vaccine ...

And they lose the workforce for schools, chronic disease prevention, data collection, surveillance systems,” a senior official at the CDC chronic disease center told STAT on condition of ...

With U.S. recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines in flux, a leading member of the CDC's COVID vaccine advisory group is reportedly jumping ship. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, M.D., a nearly 10-year ...

“The announcement from earlier this week sounded like CDC was going to fully withdraw any statement that could be construed as a recommendation for these vaccines in these populations,” said ...

Five hours later, CDC officials received a one-page “secretarial directive,” dated May 19 and signed by Kennedy, that contradicts some of what he said in his video, according to two current ...

The departing CDC official, Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatric infectious disease expert, was a co-leader of a working group on COVID-19 vaccines who advised experts on the CDC's Advisory ...

The move comes after a week of mixed messages on COVID vaccine recommendations. An official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who oversaw the agency's recommendations for COVID-19 ...

A top coronavirus vaccine adviser to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned from the agency, citing concerns that she would no longer be able to help the most vulnerable ...

Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said in an email to colleagues Tuesday that she made a “personal decision” to quit the CDC after 12 years. “My career in public health and vaccinology started with ...