A federal advisory panel with power over vaccine policy has voted to stop recommending a universal newborn shot to prevent the hepatitis B virus, which causes liver disease — a major shakeup to the ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to lift the long-standing recommendation for all newborns to get the hepatitis B vaccine, rejecting the strong opinions of public health experts who ...

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - DECEMBER 4: Retsef Levi, left, and Raymond Pollak, right, are seen as a presenter from Vaccines for Children (VfC) speaks during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to ...

Members of a key vaccine panel have delayed a pivotal vote regarding the hepatitis B vaccine, while voting to amend recommendations to combination shots that target measles, mumps, rubella and ...

Upending decades-old guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted to no longer issue a blanket recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B ...

WASHINGTON — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. Newborn hepatitis B ...

Guinea-Bissau has put a halt to a U.S.-backed hepatitis B vaccine study involving newborns, pending a formal ethical ...

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 ...

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 in favor of limiting national recommendations on which infants should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The panel voted Dec. 5 to ...