HHS withdraws amended vaccine advisory panel charter |
HHS withdraws amended vaccine advisory panel charter
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Monday withdrew its amended charter for a highly influential vaccine advisory committee that would have loosened eligibility requirements, citing administrative errors.
In a notice set to be officially published in the Federal Register, HHS formally withdrew its proposed amendment to the charter for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The proposal would have replaced the previous charter’s requirement that ACIP members have “expertise in the use of vaccines and other immunobiologic agents in clinical practice or preventive medicine, have expertise with clinical or........