The resignation follows an order by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to change the agency's guidance.

Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Tuesday after Health and Human Services ...

By Julie Steenhuysen, Michael Erman and Dan Levine (Reuters) - Pediatric infectious disease expert Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos resigned on Tuesday as co-leader of a U.S. CDC working group that ...

An official who oversaw the recommendations for COVID-19 vaccinations at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control has resigned. Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos resigned on Friday. “My career ...

Coronavirus expert Fiona Havers has followed Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos out the door.

The officer, Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatrician, was the CDC co-lead of the group of independent vaccine advisers that had spent months reviewing evidence for annual Covid-19 shots for ...

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans' health, is without a clear leader.

An official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who oversaw the agency's recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines has resigned, following a week of mixed messaging from federal health ...

The officer, Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, a pediatrician, was the CDC co-lead of the group of independent vaccine advisers that had spent months reviewing evidence for annual Covid-19 shots for ...

By Brenda Goodman, CNN (CNN) — A medical officer at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who was working on changes to the agency’s Covid-19 vaccine recommendations resigned on ...