President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday reworking the federal government's recommended childhood vaccine schedule. The order reduces the number of diseases covered by routine childhood vaccine recommendations from 17 to 11. It also calls ...

The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into 3 different single-disease shots and administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible.

President Trump has signed 19 executive actions since he took the oath of office on January 20th.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for changes to childhood vaccine recommendations, a move that is raising concerns among some public health experts.

U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani had already halted the order Trump signed in March, his second one attempting to set national election rules. On June 25, she sided with Democratic state attorneys general in granting summary judgment, preventing the core parts of Trump’s order from taking effect.

The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court in June struck down President Trump's earlier executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship.