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

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

"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 ...

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

The nation's top vaccine advisory panel is expected to debate on Thursday whether to delay the first dose of the hepatitis B ...

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

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

It's unusual for presidents to give medical advice. But this week, President Trump told parents to delay giving their kids a hep b shot until they... Trump advises parents on hepatitis B vaccine. Here ...

It's unusual for presidents to give out medical advice. But in a White House press briefing earlier this week, President Trump questioned the wisdom of vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B.