Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handpicked vaccine committee voted to do away with the long-standing, universal recommendation that all babies receive a hepatitis B shot at ...

The CDC's committee that helps determine vaccine guidelines has recommended delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Here's why experts disagree. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe, highly ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

In 1990 I was a pediatric infectious disease physician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Our oncologist examined a patient who had an abdominal mass which turned out to be a ...

U.S. federal guidelines currently recommend that all newborns get a dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, but a CDC advisory committee has voted to change that approach. Here’s what’s at stake. Today a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. The CDC’s expert vaccine advisory committee members were all fired by ...

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 ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially abandoned universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns on Tuesday, signing off on its vaccine advisers’ recommendation for individual ...

Hepatitis B is a virus that can damage the liver and lead to lifelong health problems. The hepatitis B vaccine prevents short-term illness (acute hepatitis) and a life-threatening infection called ...

Update: The CDC's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for babies whose mothers test negative for the virus. Read the latest here. Our ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. A panel that advises on US vaccine policy ...