Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, ...

Under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health officials have changed guidance on hepatitis B vaccines, ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding ...

U.S. vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B ...

U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. “A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried ...

How a new recommendation on hepatitis B vaccination could add confusion for families and limit protection against other diseases.

A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B ...

The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health ...

Vaccinating babies for hepatitis B at birth remains one of the clearest, most evidence-based ways to keep American children ...

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote ...

Relying on testing to guide vaccination recalls an approach the United States tried in the 1980s and early ’90s that still led to thousands of cases of hepatitis B among children every year.

In addition, it has been scientifically shown there is no safety, efficacy or long-term benefit to delaying the vaccine. In ...