The Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children is critical to the nation’s health Michael Conroy/AP By Lillian Isabella April 24, 2025 Isabella is a rare disease advocate.

But for the first time in its history, no one is serving on that advisory committee after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all its 17 sitting members June 9.

But for the first time in its history, no one is serving on that advisory committee after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all its 17 sitting members June 9.

In an emergency resolution, the AMA, based in Chicago, asked the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to investigate Kennedy’s move on Monday to remove all 17 members of the ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, is a panel of experts appointed to advise the CDC on how to use vaccines to protect the health of people in the U.S.

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at RFK Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee purge, a tech billionaire’s funding of research on AI and healthcare, Omada’s IPO and more.