The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel voted Dec. 5 to recommend not requiring the hepatitis B vaccine to be administered at birth for all newborns, instead suggesting some ...

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 ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee is meeting in Atlanta to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. For decades, the government has advised that ...

The hepatitis B vaccine has emerged as the latest flashpoint as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to cast doubt on the safety of vaccines. The vaccine is routinely given to babies ...

As U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel gears up to debate hepatitis B immunization for infants this week, health experts say that delaying the shot usually given at ...

A vote on the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns has been pushed to Friday. Advisors say the wording kept changing, and they were confused about exactly what they were being asked to vote on. Democrats ...

A group of advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could reverse a long-standing recommendation that every baby get a hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth. The virus, ...

Sen. Paul questions need for newborns to get hepatitis B vaccine. U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky clashed with former Centers for Disease Control chief, Dr. Susan Monarez during her testimony to ...

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