A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for next week — the first since Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in — has been postponed,

Measles cases are popping up across the country, especially in areas with lower vaccination rates. There were 285 cases reported in the US last year, the most since 2019, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A panel of experts advising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines will not convene for its February meeting, Stat News reported on Thursday citing a senior federal official.

The panel of vaccine experts were supposed to hold their first meeting under the Trump administration in late February. It's not clear when that meeting will now take place.

The first meeting of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisory committee since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary has been

A committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is critical in setting national vaccine policy. It's also vulnerable to political interference.

An upcoming meeting of the ACIP, a key CDC vaccine advisory panel that is under scrutiny by RFK Jr., has been postponed. A U.S. official said it would be rescheduled.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sharing advice to travellers amid the level one health notice

The CDC was ordered to shelve promotions it developed for a variety of vaccines after Health Secretary RFK Jr. said he wants message focused on "informed consent."

Just days after taking office, RFK Jr. has overseen major shifts at the CDC, including canceling a flu vaccination campaign and delaying a vaccine advisory meeting. The move comes as flu-related hospitalisations surge.

As a measles outbreak sweeps through Texas, anti-vaccine groups are pushing a familiar and false theory: The virus is being caused by the vaccine itself.