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WASHINGTON: The US government has terminated 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines, raising questions about the safety and effectiveness of a technology widely credited with curbing the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision, announced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reflects growing skepticism within the administration regarding mRNA vaccines. “We reviewed the science, listened to the

Home / World AFP 17 Jun, 2025 12:55 AM 2 mins to read Robert F. Kennedy jnr dismissed all 17 members of a key advisory committee last week. Photo / Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy jnr dismissed all 17 members of a key advisory committee last week. Photo / Getty Images Vaccination experts recently fired

World Health Organisation Building/Internet The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published its first-ever position paper on immunisation products to protect infants against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a leading cause of acute lower respiratory infections in children globally. WHO said RSV causes approximately 100,000 deaths and over 3.6 million hospitalisations in children under 5 years worldwide

The Food and Drug Administration plans major changes for how Covid vaccines are rolled out and who will be able to get the updated shots this fall. In a paper published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the FDA commissioner, Dr. Marty Makary, and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s new vaccine chief, wrote

Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator, has resigned, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday. “If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “tepid endorsement” of measles vaccination puts the U.S. at risk of losing its elimination status of the disease as early as January, the Food and Drug Administration’s former top vaccine regulator said Tuesday — as experts warn the Texas outbreak may become among the biggest on record.  “Given the

    WILMINGTON, NC, November 23, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Former CDC director Richard Besser says, "We should...spend money trying to understand what are the causes of autism... but to keep lifting up the idea that it has something to do with vaccination is really a cruel thing to do," in his article criticizing RFK Jr. Richard Ruhling

Europe’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended granting marketing authorization for two drugs for preventing COVID-19: a monoclonal antibody called Kavigale (sipavibart) and a self-amplifying mRNA vaccine known as Kostaive (zapomeran). The recommendations are now in line for approval by the European Commission...