John Ellis had barely heard of hepatitis B when he was diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease at age 16.

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

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee voted to eliminate a recommendation that all newborn babies receive a vaccine against hepatitis B, ending a policy that has been in place since ...

For nurse practitioners like Natasha Weems, their concerns lie in how these decisions could impact some of our most ...

Doctors say the controversial vote to not recommend the vaccine for all newborns is creating chaos and hurdles for parents.

Despite new guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on giving the hepatitis B Vaccine to infants, ...

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

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

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose ...

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

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.

Dr. Gigi Chawla, Chief of General Pediatrics at Children's Minnesota, visited KARE 11 News at Noon to share more about ...