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

"We have real concerns and very little confidence that what they put out will be sound or based in science," Healey said.

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

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

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

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

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

A key advisory panel that oversees nationwide vaccine recommendations may vote to restrict access to hepatitis B ...

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

The Hepatitis B vaccine is usually administered to newborns, but it could now be delayed by weeks or even years.

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

Nov 6 (Reuters) - A group of independent U.S. vaccine experts said on Thursday it plans to review existing data on administering the hepatitis B shot at birth, months after a federal panel postponed a ...