For this reason, the CDC recommends adults 50 or older schedule the following vaccines, which many people can get for free. Just talk to your doctor before getting any vaccine, as there are some exceptions to CDC recommendations.

Moderna's shares fell 2.3% in early trading on Friday, on concerns whether a new CDC advisory panel would back the use of the company's respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in a broader age group. The RSV shot,

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the CDC’s panel of outside vaccine experts Wednesday, two days after firing all 17 of its members.

Note that some links may require registration or subscription. An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board crashed into a medical school hostel in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad. There were no known survivors. ( AP)

The American Pharmacists Association will withhold endorsing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest immunization schedule, which removed the recommendation for pregnant women to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

On June 11, 2025, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a slate of eight new members to serve on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on national vaccine policy.