CDC panel votes to stop recommending birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding recommendations on the hepatitis B vaccine.
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The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding recommendations on the hepatitis B vaccine.
A panel of vaccine advisors approved by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted to drop the Hepatitis B shot from newborn vaccine schedules on Friday. President Trump applauded the move on social media, but many medical experts and organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, oppose the change.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Meg Oliver has more.
The CDC vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending newborns get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook joins with analysis.
The vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to change the recommendation for childhood hepatitis B vaccines despite warnings from medical experts. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, joins with his reaction.
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel meets Thursday and Friday to discuss recommendations for the hepatitis B vaccine and the schedule of childhood shots.
A CDC vaccine panel will vote Friday on whether to stop recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed a vote until Friday on whether to change a longstanding recommendation that newborns should receive the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist, joins CBS News to discuss.
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, a critic of government vaccine mandates, has been quietly appointed to one of the CDC's top positions.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims that the aluminum ingredients in vaccines cause a variety of harmful reactions, from allergies to autism. Scientists say that's wrong and warn of risks if they're removed.
Multiple CDC officials familiar with the situation said the change was made by political appointees without input from relevant agency staffers.
The man, an older adult with underlying health conditions, was being treated for a type of bird flu called H5N5.
A page of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's website was changed to include a false claim about autism and vaccines. Multiple CDC officials familiar with the situation said the change was made by political appointees inside the Department of Health and Human Services without input from relevant agency staffers. Dr. Jon LaPook has details.
The Centers for Disease Control's website has made a significant change to its guidance on vaccines and autism. The site used to say "No links have been found between any vaccine ingredients and autism spectrum disorder." It now reads "'Vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim." CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook has more.
Health officials in Washington state said a resident has contracted bird flu, marking the first human case in the U.S. since February.
Federal and state health officials are investigating 13 cases in 10 U.S. states of infant botulism linked to ByHeart Inc. baby formula products that are being recalled.
At least 11 people have contracted Salmonella linked to powder supplements sold at Sam's Club stores nationwide, health authorities said.
"They went in and fired entire programs, even statutorily mandated by law programs they cut entirely," she told CBS News. "So there is no staff to do this work anymore."
The Trump administration has used the government shutdown to lay off more than 4,000 federal workers, with plans to go further, according to budget chief Russell Vought. Among those laid off is a CDC scientist who spoke to Caitlin Huey-Burns.
Over the weekend, hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees were laid off, a move that former CDC officials are criticizing as damaging public health preparedness.
The Trump administration has issued layoff notices to more than 4,000 federal workers as the government shutdown enters its 13th day. CBS News congressional correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns has the latest.
It is Day 2 of a government shutdown and hundreds of thousands of federal workers still do not know when they will get their next paycheck. On Capitol Hill, it's unclear what the path looks like to reopen the government. CBS News' Willie James Inman reports and Yolanda Jacobs, health communications specialist at the CDC, joins CBS News to discuss.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health are among the agencies where workers are expected to be furloughed as part of the government shutdown. For more on this, CBS News was joined by Yolanda Jacobs, health communications specialist at the CDC and a union president representing CDC workers in Atlanta.
Government scientists say infection rates from drug-resistant "nightmare bacteria" have been increasing dramatically.
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel recently voted on recommendations, but they are not binding. States can follow the recommendations, or not.