Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, ...

Under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health officials have changed guidance on hepatitis B vaccines, ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted Dec. 5 to stop recommending all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a ...

Vaccinating babies for hepatitis B at birth remains one of the clearest, most evidence-based ways to keep American children ...

U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. “A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried ...

Hepatitis B is a viral infection that attacks the liver and can lead to both acute and chronic illness. It can cause ...

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote ...

After the federal advisory committee voted to delay infant vaccination for a disease that causes liver injury, local doctors ...

In addition, it has been scientifically shown there is no safety, efficacy or long-term benefit to delaying the vaccine. In ...

Paul Offit of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia parses wording of CDC invitation to speak at vaccine advisory committee ...

Relying on testing to guide vaccination recalls an approach the United States tried in the 1980s and early ’90s that still led to thousands of cases of hepatitis B among children every year.

Recently, A federal vaccine advisory committee voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the ...