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

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 ...

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

Vaccine skeptics could see a significant win this week as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory ...

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

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

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

Delaying the timing of vaccinating infants against hepatitis B — which ACIP could vote on later this week — would likely lead ...

A group of advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could reverse a long-standing recommendation that every baby get a hepatitis B vaccination within 24 hours of birth. The virus, ...

Federal health recommendations suggest that all babies be vaccinated against hepatitis B in their first day of life, but U.S.