Under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health officials have changed guidance on hepatitis B vaccines, ...

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

Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, ...

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 ...

Recently, A federal vaccine advisory committee voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the ...

Paul Offit of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia parses wording of CDC invitation to speak at vaccine advisory committee ...

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

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

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.

After the federal advisory committee voted to delay infant vaccination for a disease that causes liver injury, local doctors ...