Vaccine advice

For U.S. children - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary and noted vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Jan. 5 endorsed fewer routinely recommended vaccinations for all children.

- Miranda Jeyaretnam

The CDC still recommends all children be vaccinated for chickenpox, tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, pneumococcal infections, Hib, measles, mumps, and rubella. But the new schedule recommends one dose of the HPV