Government group instructed to gather public input on how and when to vaccinate children

Friday, April 18, 2008 | 2:00 p.m. CDT; updated 6:36 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008

The news: A government-appointed working group is charged with picking the most important safety questions for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research over the next five years. What’s unique is that the group also is supposed to get significant public input in setting those priorities, an effort to ease skepticism that authorities hide or discount important information about vaccines.

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