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 ...

CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines

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

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 ...

CDC advisers could reverse newborn hepatitis B vaccine recommendations

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

Previewing the CDC’s December Vaccine Advisory Meeting

The vaccine advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet Dec. 4 and 5. On the ...

Mental health conditions may heighten liver cancer risk in veterans due to increased hepatitis C, study finds

Mental health conditions are common among veterans and may play a larger role than previously recognized in raising liver cancer risk for those with hepatitis C.

HIV testing in A&E 'quite literally saving lives'

Hundreds of people have been diagnosed with either HIV or hepatitis B since A&E departments across the Midlands started ...