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

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

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

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

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.

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 hepatitis B vaccine, which 'virtually eliminated' the disease in children, will no longer be given at birth unless ...

The CDC has formally stopped recommending the Hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns and suggests waiting until at least two ...