The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday ended a long-standing recommendation that all U.S. newborns ...

Since 1991, the CDC had recommended that all newborns receive a hepatitis B shot within 24 hours of birth to prevent early ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending giving all infants a dose of the hepatitis B ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a shift to a personalized approach for hepatitis B vaccination.

The CDC said it is still reviewing a separate ACIP recommendation related to doses administered after the birth-dose period.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially abandoned universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns on ...

The CDC's move follows a vote from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel that entails a major ...

An advisory panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., earlier this ​month, recommended that a birth dose ...

For nurse practitioners like Natasha Weems, their concerns lie in how these decisions could impact some of our most ...

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 vaccine advisory committee voted Dec. 5 to stop recommending all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a ...