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FDA Launches New Probe Into Covid Vaccine Safety Claims

Agency scrutinizes reports involving child deaths, pregnant women after shots

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration is taking a closer look at reports of deaths among young people and pregnant women following COVID-19 vaccinations—an inquiry that comes despite years of global research affirming the vaccines' strong safety record, reports the New York Times . The new review appears to reflect...

In Big First, Koalas Are Getting an STD Vaccine

Australia has OK'd a vaccine for chlamydia for the marsupial creatures to fight infertility, death

(Newser) - A regulator has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia, which is causing infertility and death in the iconic native species listed as endangered in parts of Australia. The single-dose vaccine was developed by Queensland's University of the Sunshine Coast after more than a decade of research...

RFK Jr.: Trump Deserves Nobel for COVID Shots

Health secretary has been a critic of the vaccines

(Newser) - Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy fielded a tricky question on Thursday from Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor: Does President Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for Operation Warp Speed, the US campaign to roll out vaccines during the pandemic? "Absolutely," responded Kennedy, reports the Washington Post ...

Washington, Oregon, California Form Vaccine Alliance

Goings-on at the CDC 'will lead to severe health consequences,' governors say

(Newser) - The Democratic governors of Washington state, Oregon, and California announced Wednesday that they have created an alliance to establish their own recommendations for who should receive vaccines because they believe the Trump administration is putting Americans' health at risk by politicizing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , the...

Bernie Sanders: RFK Jr. Must Resign
Bernie Sanders:
Kennedy Has to Go
OPINION
Aug 31, 2025 7:41 AM CDT

Bernie Sanders: Kennedy Has to Go

Health secretary is endangering American lives, the senator writes

(Newser) - Bernie Sanders has written a scathing op-ed about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. demanding that the health secretary resign because he is "endangering American lives." In his New York Times piece, the Vermont senator focuses on vaccines. "It is absurd to have to say this in 2025, but...

COVID Vaccine Season Just Got More Complex

Not as many people can automatically go to pharmacies to get their shots anymore

(Newser) - Will you get a COVID-19 vaccine? That's become a complicated question for many people, with the answer depending on one's age, insurance coverage, health, and finding a health care professional to give the shot. A once-straightforward seasonal vaccine process has become muddled this year due to new federal...

AAP Splits With CDC on COVID Vaccine Guidance for Kids

American Academy of Pediatrics still strongly recommends COVID shots for those up to 2 years

(Newser) - ]For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from US government vaccine recommendations, the AP reports. The group's new COVID-19 recommendations—released Tuesday—come amid a tumultuous year for public health, as vaccine skeptics have come into power in the new Trump...

RFK Jr. Pulls $500M in Vaccine Development Funding

HHS announces funding cuts related to mRNA vaccine research

(Newser) - The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu, the AP reports. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines...

Top Medical Orgs Booted From CDC's Vaccine Work Groups

AMA, American Academy of Pediatrics among those whose experts have been disinvited

(Newser) - US health officials have told more than a half dozen of the nation's top medical organizations that they'll no longer help establish vaccination recommendations. The government told the organizations on Thursday via email that their experts are being disinvited from the workgroups that have been the backbone of...

Research Clashes With Claim by Kennedy About Vaccines

Study of 1.2M people sees no link between aluminum in doses and disorders including autism

(Newser) - A major new study has investigated the claim by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others that vaccines administered to protect children from infectious diseases are dangerous—and found no evidence of it. Vaccine critics often cite aluminum salts, a product added to many childhood vaccines to increase their...

Medical Groups Sue Kennedy Over Vaccines

Pregnant woman joins the suit, which demands a reversal in COVID policy

(Newser) - Six major medical groups—and a pregnant woman—are taking health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to court, alleging that recent moves to restrict vaccines put public health at risk, reports the Washington Post . In particular, the lawsuit aims to reverse the decision to drop COVID vaccines from the...

Vaccine Panel Backs Kennedy on Flu Shot Ingredient

New lineup votes against endorsing shots with preservative

(Newser) - The expert panel newly installed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain a preservative long opposed by anti-vaccine activists. The decision in effect removes thimerosal from the shots and gives weight to the debunked claim that the preservative is...

Kennedy's Vaccine Panel Backs New RSV Shot

Approval is something of a surprise given the skeptics on the panel

(Newser) - The first vote of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine panel ended up being a surprising one, reports USA Today . The panel, which includes known vaccine critics , gave the green light to a new shot to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Though two members disagreed,...

RFK Jr.'s Overhauled Vaccine Panel Loses a Member

Panel set to begin 2-day meeting on Wednesday

(Newser) - Just as its first meeting under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to begin, a newly restructured federal vaccine advisory panel has lost one of its new members. The New York Times reports one of the eight members Kennedy installed two weeks ago after firing all 17 members of...

Kennedy's Vaccine Panel Picks Include Vaccine Skeptics

Health secretary names 8 new members to panel he just recently stripped

(Newser) - All those reassuring promises Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made before he was confirmed as President Trump's health secretary appear to have gone up in a puff of smoke, with Kennedy choosing an anti-vaccine activist and other well-known vaccine skeptics to join the CDC's independent vaccine advisory committee, which...

All 17 Members of Panel on Vaccines Are Ousted by RFK Jr.

Move clears way for Trump picks while seeming to reverse a confirmation pledge

(Newser) - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday that he has removed the 17 members of a panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines so that he can install people of his choosing. The move, he said in an oped piece in the Wall Street ...

Moderna Wins FDA Approval, With Limits, for COVID Vaccine

Next-generation product requires a smaller dose

(Newser) - Moderna's next COVID-19 vaccine has received Food and Drug Administration approval, albeit with restrictions not placed on the company's current shot. The new vaccine, called mNEXSPIKE, can be given to adults 65 and older and those 12 to 64 years old who have an underlying condition putting them...

Feds Pull Plug on Moderna's Bird Flu Vaccine

HHS says it's for safety reasons, but experts warn move could hinder US pandemic flu preparedness

(Newser) - The federal government is canceling a $766 million contract with Moderna to develop an mRNA-based vaccine for pandemic flu, including the H5N1 bird flu. The Department of Health and Human Services cited concerns about the safety of mRNA technology as the main reason for the decision, saying the technology...

England Is Waging War Against Gonorrhea

Pilot vaccine program launching amid a spike in infections will be a world first

(Newser) - England will become the first country to introduce a mass vaccination drive against gonorrhea, targeting primarily gay and bisexual men who either have a history of multiple sexual partners or prior STIs. NHS England will begin offering the vaccine in August at sexual health clinics, with the aim of...

Shingles Vaccine Proves Good for the Heart
Shingles Vaccine
Has Added
Benefits for
the Heart
NEW STUDY
May 8, 2025 8:25 AM CDT

Shingles Vaccine Has Added Benefits for the Heart

Study finds shot lowers risk of heart attack, as well as stroke, by 26%

(Newser) - A shingles shot might do more than spare you from an awful rash—it could help keep your heart ticking, too. New research out of South Korea links the vaccine not just to preventing shingles, but to lowering your risk of heart attacks and strokes. Scientists at Kyung Hee...

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