WASHINGTON — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to approve new recommendations delaying the child hepatitis B vaccine for infants Friday, providing a win for the Make America ...

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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 ...

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In a sharp break from more than three decades of U.S. vaccine policy, a CDC advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending that every newborn receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. Members of the ...

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Illinois will conduct its own review of a federal vaccine advisory committee’s decision to no longer recommend that all babies get the hepatitis B vaccine when they’re born — a move that’s been ...

The federal vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday moved to reschedule its vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for the newborns of mothers who ...

An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 8-3 to recommend a two-month delay in giving hepatitis B vaccinations to newborn children, a decision that could reverse ...

When Dr. Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That's when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. "I ...