Category: Vaccine Headlines
FDA may pull authorization of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for children under 5, company says
NBC News The Food and Drug Administration is considering revoking its authorization of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for healthy children under the age of 5, the drugmaker confirmed to CNBC on Tuesday. The move could leave many kids with no available shot against the virus, as jabs from Moderna and Novavax are cleared for more limited populations. While Covid typically causes mild […]
Aug 13, 2025
Kennedy’s case against mRNA vaccines collapses under his own evidence
STAT RFK Jr.’s ‘evidence’ doesn’t support ending the research — it makes the case for expanding it. When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. terminated $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine research last week, claiming he had “reviewed the science,” his press release linked to a 181-page document as justification. I reviewed Kennedy’s “evidence.” […]
Aug 13, 2025
mRNA technology could hold hope for fighting cancer, but future is in doubt under RFK Jr.
CBS News If you think last week’s decision by the federal government to halt 0 million in funding for vaccine development projects that use mRNA technology will only affect COVID vaccines, think again. These types of vaccines use messenger RNA, or mRNA, to prompt the body to make proteins that induce an antibody response to protect against a pathogen. […]
Aug 13, 2025
‘You Could Throw Out the Results of All These Papers’
The Atlantic RFK Jr.’s vaccine-safety investigator has previously used government vaccine data to publish research with glaring flaws. Mark and David Geier were a father-and-son team of researchers who operated on the fringes of the scientific establishment. They were known for promoting a controversial treatment for autism, and for publishing papers on the purported harms […]
Jul 30, 2025
RFK Jr. is completely reshaping vaccine policy. This is the man helping him do it.
NBC “Who is Stuart Burns?” a scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention texted me from the organization’s all-hands meeting in June, attaching a photo of a man seated in front of his name card. The 60-year-old conservative with a stout build and a boyish haircut was mostly unknown to the doctors, epidemiologists […]
Jul 30, 2025
Kennedy Rescinds Endorsements for Some Flu Vaccines
NYT Federal guidelines no longer recommend flu vaccines containing a preservative, used in a small percentage of vaccines, that has been falsely linked to autism. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday formally rescinded federal recommendations for all flu vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative that the anti-vaccine movement has falsely linked to autism. […]
Jul 23, 2025
HHS Adopts ACIP Recommendation to Remove Thimerosal from All U.S. Influenza Vaccines
HHS U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. took action Tuesday signing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations to remove the mercury-based preservative thimerosal from all influenza vaccines distributed in the United States. This move follows a 5-1-1 vote at the ACIP’s June 25-26 […]
Jul 23, 2025
Study finds no link between aluminum in vaccines and autism, asthma
NBC News The study included more than 1.2 million people in Denmark who got childhood vaccines. Aluminum in childhood vaccines is a target of vaccine skeptics, who blame the ingredient on myriad health concerns. But a study of more than 1 million people, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found no link between aluminum in […]
Jul 15, 2025
More than 14M children globally have not received a dose of any vaccine: WHO
ABC News More than 14 million children around the world have not received a single dose of any vaccine, according to new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. This is 4 million more children than the 2024 target set by the WHO and 1.4 million more children than in 2019, which is the […]
Jul 15, 2025
COVID-19 vaccine technology adapted to develop first mRNA defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
MedExpress In this study, the researchers tested the vaccine’s resistance to the virulent pathogen that causes the disease and were able to demonstrate 100% protection against infection in animal models. The researchers now hope that this technology can be used to combat other lethal bacteria as well. The study was led by Tel Aviv University’s Vice President […]
Jul 9, 2025