Early one morning in April, John Weiser checked his email, worried that a colleague at the Division of HIV Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was on the list for another round of ...

Background: Timely diagnosis of acute HIV infection (AHI) is critical for curbing transmission. However, the diagnostic window prior to antibody development limits the utility of conventional ...

The U.S. 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 ...

The CDC has issued travel warnings for several countries experiencing outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya. Chikungunya is a viral disease that causes fever and severe joint pain, with ...

The CDC has ended its decades-long policy recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted controversial guidance from its advisory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC now recommends shared decision-making for the birth dose of the HBV vaccine for infants whose mothers ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Public health leaders are monitoring HIV cases in Penobscot County — and now in Cumberland County. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued an advisory ...

New York City health department officials are concerned after recently released data showed a slight uptick in HIV cases – which comes as the federal government proposes cutting funding to HIV ...

An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to revoke a longstanding recommendation that all babies receive hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth, a move expected to reverse the country’s ...

A key vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday voted in favor of reversing long-held guidance for newborn hepatitis B vaccinations. After months of ...

The committee called for "individual decision-making." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee voted 8-3 on Friday to remove the universal recommendation for the ...