Amid vaccine policy whiplash, here’s how a pediatrician talks to families

Molly O’Shea has been practicing pediatrics for 33 years. “I’ve seen it all,” she says. Her career spans the introduction of numerous vaccines, a decline in infectious diseases — and a troubling rise in vaccine hesitancy. When, in January, the Trump administration slashed the number of recommended shots in the government’s childhood vaccination schedule, the…

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Rival ‘shadow’ group to RFK, Jr.’s autism science committee meets in D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A “shadow committee” of autism researchers and science advocates met in the nation’s capital for the first time on Thursday. Called the Independent Autism Coordinating Committee (I-ACC), the group rapidly came together as a response to Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., overhauling of the federal government’s Interagency Autism Coordinating…

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