Kennedy’s handpicked CDC advisers to weigh major change to childhood vaccine schedule

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the ...

Doctors warn delaying hepatitis B shot for newborns could revive a deadly threat

As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, ...

Vaccine Committee May Make Significant Changes to Childhood Schedule

Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to ...

What to know about the hepatitis B shot — and why Trump officials are targeting it

Federal health recommendations suggest all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection in their first day of life, but ...
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RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers considering major overhaul of childhood immunization schedule

The CDC's reconstituted Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is set to vote this week on scrapping a ...

CDC advisers could reverse newborn hepatitis B vaccine recommendations

A group of advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to vote on whether the agency should scrap ...

CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.
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CT Officials: All Newborns Should Get Hepatitis B Vaccine Within 24 Hours Of Birth

Babies can contract Hepatitis B from their mothers during childbirth, even if the mother doesn’t know she’s infected. Infants ...
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Quality statement 4: Complete course of neonatal hepatitis B vaccination and blood testing at 12 months

Babies born to hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive mothers receive a complete course of hepatitis B vaccination and, at age 12 months, receive a blood test for hepatitis B infection.