A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B ...

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

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

The nation’s top vaccine advisory panel is expected to debate on whether to delay the first dose of the hepatitis B shot on Thursday. The immunization, originally developed in Philadelphia and long ...

Doctors say the vaccine has been key to eliminating infections among children.

By Michael Erman NEW YORK, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisers will vote this week on whether to delay ...

The advisory committee charged with recommending childhood vaccines is considering changes in the Hepatitis B vaccine this ...

Public health experts warn any delay to the newborn dose of the hepatitis B vaccine could threaten decades of progress.

The Rhode Island Department of Health is reiterating its support for the current hepatitis B vaccine schedule.

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

Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has spent decades treating the ...