Healthy Returns: What to know about a CDC vaccine panel’s votes against a mercury preservative in flu shots

Biostatistician and epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff, MD, PhD, and Dr. Mina Zadeh, ACIP Executive Secretary, CDC, look on as people present their information to members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) advisory panel for vaccines convenes, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. June 25, 2025. Megan Varner…

Nasdaq-traded Chinese herb stock with no revenues rallies 58,000% to top Lululemon in market value

Hong Kong Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Regencell Bioscience Holdings, an early-stage, Hong Kong-based bioscience company with no revenue, is the latest speculative overseas stock to attract an unusual surge in trading demand. Shares of Regencell, which says it develops traditional Chinese herb treatments to treat childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism,…

CDC says parents can decide with doctors if healthy kids get Covid shot

In this photo illustration, Ruth Jones, Immunization Nurse, holds a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (brand name: Comirnaty) at Borinquen Health Care Center on May 29, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images The nation’s top public health agency posted new recommendations that say healthy children and pregnant women may get Covid vaccinations, removing stronger…

CDC now says kids

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says that kids with no underlying healthy conditions “may receive” COVID-19 vaccines, dropping a broad recommendation for all children to get vaccinated against the virus.  Updates to CDC’s childhood immunization schedule were published late Thursday, following an announcement earlier this week by Health and Human Services Secretary…