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 ...

Gov. Maura Healey and her top health officials promised to keep vaccines available for Massachusetts families even if the ...

The Health and Human Services Department is proposing new initiatives for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including a program to increase hepatitis B screening for pregnant women, as ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) will meet Dec. 4 and 5, according to a Federal Register notice that indicates that recommendation votes may be scheduled for hepatitis B ...

An expert panel on immunizations appointed by the U.S. CDC will hold its next meeting in December, with its agenda including a vote on whether to recommend changes to the current Hepatitis B ...

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 ...

Demetre Daskalakis, the former director of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, argues the public health agency has been weaponized into a political tool. Reading time 10 ...

Proposals to remove the CDC's recommendation for the Hepatitis B vaccine at birth are causing concern. The vaccine has reduced newborn infections from as many as 20,000 per year to fewer than 20. An ...

The Trump administration is moving to keep some staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after telling them Friday that they were laid off. The National Public Health Coalition, a ...

The changes include individual-based-decision-making for COVID-19 vaccination in individuals not at risk and standalone vaccination for varicella in toddlers. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Trump administration is continuing its push to revise federal guidelines to delay the hepatitis B vaccine newborn dose for most children. This comes despite a failed attempt to do so at the most ...