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White House directs HHS and CDC to align childhood vaccine recommendations with “best practices from peer, developed countries”

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White House directs HHS and CDC to align childhood vaccine recommendations with “best practices from peer, developed countries”

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Harvey Risch, critic of COVID-19 response, tapped by White House to serve as chair of the President’s Cancer Panel

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb speaks out against CDC vaccine panel

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Vaccine skeptic installed as CDC’s new second-in-command

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Pazdur leaves FDA after 25-year career that shaped the agency’s oncology regulations
BIO calls for the end of “constant turmoil,” urges the administration to “right the ship”