Dr. Baruch Blumberg, a federal scientist, identified the virus behind the infection in 1965. He won the Nobel Prize for the ...

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

But without a birth dose, about 90% of newborns who are infected perinatally will develop chronic HBV infection -- and ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee could vote this week to change hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for children. Here's ...

A group of advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could reverse a long-standing recommendation that every ...

The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B ...

Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are planning to examine whether shots on the childhood immunization schedule are behind the rise of allergies and autoimmune ...