A vaccine that helps prevent liver disease is back in the spotlight as a federal advisory panel considers delaying the first shot for infants. The hepatitis B vaccine is a multi-dose series typically ...

(CNN) — A group of independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting this week, and a key item on the agenda is the hepatitis B vaccine. After presentations ...

For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

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 ...

Just days after federal vaccine advisors voted to end a longstanding vaccine recommendation for infants, local doctors are fielding questions from confused patients and looking to organizations other ...