A federal panel decided to delay the birth dose of hepatitis b vaccine unless there is maternal hepatitis b blood test evidence that the baby needs the vaccine at birth.

The medical community is still reeling after a federal advisory panel voted to end the automatic hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a recommendation that has been in place for more than 30 years. Most of ...

A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday morning to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on ...

The U.S. is cutting the Hepatitis B vaccine from its recommended list. But here's a place where the medical establishment — and a rapper — are eager to obtain it.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee voted 8-3 on Friday to remove the universal ...

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 ...

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 ...

A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.