A CDC advisory panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. no longer recommends that babies get a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health ...

NEW YORK -- A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. A loud chorus of ...

The decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth is likely to lead to hundreds of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood immunization schedule, including potentially changing recommendations on a shot given to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has delayed a vote on changes to recommendations on giving a hepatitis B vaccine to newborns ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...