A CDC advisory panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. no longer recommends that babies get a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health ...

A CDC panel of vaccine advisors voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. Dr. Susan Kressly, the president of the American Academy of ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel voted Dec. 5 to recommend not requiring the hepatitis B vaccine to be administered at birth for all newborns, instead suggesting some ...

In a close vote, U.S. health experts ended a long-standing rule that gave nearly every newborn a hepatitis B vaccine right ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...

State health officials are going to continue recommending a hepatitis B shot for all newborns within 24 hours of birth despite a new recommendation to contrary Friday by ...

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's vaccine advisory panel met Thursday for the first of two days of discussions about childhood vaccine schedules and recommendations. The panel is ...

ACIP advises the CDC director on how FDA-approved vaccines should be used. For example, the panel recommends which groups of ...

After a year of major shifts in the federal government’s policy toward vaccines, Americans are now more likely to trust the ...