The nation's top vaccine advisory panel is expected to debate on Thursday whether to delay the first dose of the hepatitis B shot.

Hepatitis B is a potentially fatal liver disease. It spreads through contact with bodily fluids, and certain groups including health care workers and IV drug users are at higher risk. Anyone can be infected. Babies can be infected during childbirth or ...

Hepatitis B vaccines given at birth have essentially eliminated the disease in kids. A vote this week could upend that success.

A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying, until age 4, the hepatitis B vaccine that's currently given to newborns, according to two former ...

Rates of the disease have fallen since 1991, when all newborns began receiving the shot. President Trump recently said he thought children should not get it until age 12. By Dani Blum In the latest and perhaps most high-profile attack on the practice of ...

Do newborns need the hepatitis B vaccine to B healthy? That’s slated to be deliberated Thursday at a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The influential vaccine advisory panel is expected to vote to recommend ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. It was the late 1980s and the American plan to combat hepatitis B wasn’t working.

Proposals to remove the CDC's recommendation for the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth are causing concern. The vaccine has reduced newborn infections from as many as 20,000 per year to fewer than 20. An alternative strategy suggests relying on maternal ...