Use of hepatitis B vaccines in U. newborns was declining well before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scrapped ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s influential vaccine advisory panel has voted to no longer universally recommend the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns ...

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. When Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That’s when she learned she was infected with hepatitis ...

For a new parent who doesn’t have background knowledge about vaccination, the idea can be complicated and confusing, especially when there’s so much disinformation and propaganda being spread. Now the ...

WASHINGTON — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. Newborn hepatitis B ...

An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 8-3 to recommend a two-month delay in giving hepatitis B vaccinations to newborn children, a decision that could reverse ...

A key federal vaccine advisory panel has voted to end more than three decades of guidance that all newborns receive a hepatitis B shot within hours of birth, a move that has alarmed many public-health ...