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

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

What to know about the hepatitis B vaccine schedule debate

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

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 ...
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Expert review finds delaying the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose would increase chronic infections in kids

Delaying the timing of vaccinating infants against hepatitis B — which ACIP could vote on later this week — would likely lead ...
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Delaying Hep B Vaccine in Infants Carries Significant Risks, Report Warns

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

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, ...
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New review finds no evidence to support delaying universal hepatitis B birth-dose vaccination

A new review of more than 400 studies spanning 40 years finds no evidence that delaying the universal hepatitis B vaccine ...

RFK Jr. vaccine advisers to review whether shots are causing allergies, Washington Post reports

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 ...