“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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A rare case of rabies linked to an organ transplant has resulted in two deaths, federal health officials announced.