Vaccine makers expressed concern on Friday's decision by a U.S. advisory panel to scrap its long-standing recommendation that all infants receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a shift that public health experts fear will undermine decades of public health advances.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren called Netflix's $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery's studios and streaming division an antitrust "nightmare" that would harm workers and consumers, ramping up bipartisan criticism of the entertainment megadeal on Friday.
A group of vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the U.S. receive a hepatitis B vaccine, in one of the most sweeping changes to vaccine policy under Kennedy's leadership so far. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on which public health recommendations to adopt.