How a new recommendation on hepatitis B vaccination could add confusion for families and limit protection against other ...

ACIP delayed the vote on the hepatitis B vaccine schedule amid ongoing controversy and misinformation surrounding vaccine safety and infant immunization.

ACIP’s new recommendations could also risk roughly 6,930 newborns in Baltimore, according to Baltimore City health ...

A CDC advisory panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. no longer recommends that babies get a hepatitis B ...

The CDC's committee that helps determine vaccine guidelines has recommended delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.

A federal vaccine panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending immediate immunization for all newborns against hepatitis B, a ...

Hepatitis B is most often acquired through contact with body fluids from an infected person. It can also be transmitted via ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted ...

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

Doctors say the vaccine has been key to eliminating infections among children.