The US Department of Health and Human Services said it is re-establishing the Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, a panel of US health officials tasked with making recommendations on vaccine development,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a dizzying amount of changes to federal health agencies in his first six months as HHS secretary, with yesterday's decision to revive a childhood vaccine safety panel that anti-vax groups sought being the latest in a long list.

In another sign of increased regulatory scrutiny of vaccines in the US, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has brought back a long-defunct task force that focused on the safety of childhood immunisations.