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Federal judge stalls health secretary RFK Jr.’s overhaul of vaccine policy

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Breaking: A federal judge on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S.

A federal judge in Boston on Monday stalled major parts of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to remake vaccine policy in the U.S., saying the Trump administration had likely violated the law.

Judge Brian E. Murphy issued a preliminary ruling finding that Kennedy’s

reconstitution of a key vaccine advisory panel

, and

changes made to the childhood vaccine schedule

in January, were likely illegal. Specifically, he ruled, those policy changes violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs how federal agencies ought to consider and implement policy changes.

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— Source: STAT News (https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/16/kennedy-childhood-vaccine-changes-blocked-judge/)

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