In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying ...

New York has no plans to change hepatitis B vaccine guidance after a Centers for Disease Control advisory panel voted to stop ...

Officials say women who test negative for the disease should decide on an individual basis whether to give their child the ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B ...

CDC panel no longer recommends HVB vaccine for newborns State health officials tout the success of inoculations in babies ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of medical and ...

For decades, one of the very first medical procedures for American newborns has been a Hepatitis B vaccination administered ...

State health officials are going to continue recommending a hepatitis B shot for all newborns within 24 hours of birth despite a new recommendation to contrary Friday by a panel of the CDC.

The decision undoes a highly effective 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B ...

I recently had new parents ask to postpone the hepatitis B vaccine until adolescence because they believed federal health ...

The influential advisory panel voted to no longer universally recommend the first dose of the hep B vaccine for newborns ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at ...