The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first recommended vaccinating all babies against hepatitis B at birth in ...

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

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

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

As hepatitis B research progresses, achieving higher functional cure rates is becoming more feasible. It is vital that ...

Chronic HBV infection remains a major global health burden, with current antiviral therapies effectively suppressing viral ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adults with HBV immunity have 15% lower risk for diabetes than those who do not have immunity. The risk for ...

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

But without a birth dose, about 90% of newborns who are infected perinatally will develop chronic HBV infection -- and ...

Background: The duration of protection after hepatitis B vaccination of infants is unknown. Methods: We determined antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs) at 4-13 years of age in 363 low ...

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

A new review of more than 400 studies spanning 40 years finds no evidence that delaying the universal hepatitis B vaccine ...