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, ...

A growing numbers of states are preparing to either maintain the old standard for the hepatitis B vaccine or chart their own ...

A CDC panel decided to end the universal birth dose of a hepatitis B vaccine for newborns, with some officials pointing to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health ...