“The American people have benefited from the committee’s well-informed, rigorous discussion about the appropriateness of a ...

When Susan Monarez was sworn in to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s premier public ...

The CDC currently recommends that nearly all newborns receive the shot as part of routine care. The ACIP is now recommending ...

Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for ...

In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended ...

The new guidance would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut ...

The best way to prevent hepatitis B infection is vaccination. The vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection in ...

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel ...

After a contentious discussion, the vaccine advisory group pushed the vote to Friday to give members time to study the ...

The outbreak blamed on "gym exposure" is relatively small, but it has helped push cases tied to the Legionella bacteria to a ...

The Maryland Department of Health is highlighting the importance of the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, despite a ...