Many doctors say a study of the hepatitis B vaccine in newborns, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded, goes against medical ethics by delaying a proven vaccine for babies, ...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending giving all infants a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth, approving a sweeping and highly ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted ...

On Dec. 4, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisors voted 8-3 to change their recommendations on vaccinating infants for hepatitis B. The old guidance, which had ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel’s recommendation to no longer ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

The CDC has formally adopted a recommendation from its vaccine advisory panel to stop recommending hepatitis B vaccination for every newborn at birth. The agency said Tuesday that the childhood ...