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Anna Rogers

Prominent medical journal refuses RFK's call to retract a vaccine study

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference at the Department of Health and Human Services on April 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. .

A prominent medical journal has refused a call made by the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to retract a study that found that aluminum in vaccines does not pose a health risk to children.

Published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine in mid-July, the study evaluated the safety of aluminum used in childhood vaccines by analyzing vaccination and other health records from over 1.2 million children in Denmark.

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