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(Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A vaccine advisory committee handpicked by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met in Atlanta this week to consider whether to revise recommendations on ...

US Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing pressure from lawmakers over his newly appointed vaccine panel that's set to meet for the first time this week. - Kayla Bartkowski/Getty ...

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers alarmed pediatricians Wednesday by announcing inquiries into some long-settled questions about children’s shots.

For months, the committee went back-and-forth over whether it would refer Trump to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. On Monday, the committee didn’t equivocate. The committee referred ...

The House Natural Resources Committee’s first meeting of the new Congress offered a glimpse of what’s to come. The first meeting of the Natural Resources Committee featured a lot of gun talk, some ...

Changing the date and time of the Central City Revitalization Panel’s monthly meeting may occur so that as many members as possible can attend. The subject was brought up by panel member Cary Cox, who ...