The American Academy of Pediatrics have sued Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for making what it called non-science-based changes on vaccines that were an "assault on science,

The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends vaccines for children aged 6 months to 23 months. In contrast, the CDC says that parents of children ages 6 months to 17 years should discuss the benefits of vaccination with a healthcare provider and does not recommend the shot for healthy youth in this age group.

Data-driven analysis compares disease risks to vaccine risks, highlighting evidence gaps and urging review of school vaccine mandates

The US Department of Health and Human Services said it is re-establishing the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, a panel of US health officials tasked with making recommendations on vaccine development,

A lawsuit claims Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. violated a 1986 law by failing to set up a task force to make childhood vaccines safer.

The doctors also highlighted that vaccine recommendations from the CDC often become state law, even if there's little cumulative research to back up the recommendations.

The original task force was disbanded in 1998, the health agency said, adding that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya will serve as the chairman.

Despite an outbreak of measles last year in a Weston elementary school, Broward County saw a dramatic drop in its immunization rate for kindergartners in 2025. In Broward, only 82.2% of 2024-25 kindergartners got their required vaccinations — the lowest level in 15 years.

In Washington, 3,578 kindergarten students, or 4.8% of the 74,896 enrolled, had an exemption during the 2024-25 school year. A total of 2,551 kindergarten students, or 3.4% of those enrolled, had a religious exemption. (A smaller number had an exemption for being part of a religious group that doesn’t allow medical treatment by health providers.)

Kindergartners in the United States fell behind on routine childhood vaccinations during the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday, a slide that experts ...

A group of vaccine-skeptical doctors and mandate opponents is challenging the CDC’s childhood immunization schedule in federal court.