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

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, ...

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

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

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

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

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

Babies can contract Hepatitis B from their mothers during childbirth, even if the mother doesn’t know she’s infected. Infants ...

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.