The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. After ...

Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...

Illinois will conduct its own review of a federal vaccine advisory committee’s decision to no longer recommend that all babies get the hepatitis B vaccine when they’re born — a move that’s been ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 4, 2025. The Trump administration released a ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 last ...

On the Tuesday, December 9, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: A vaccine panel led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to end the longstanding recommendation for ...

A powerful federal public-health advisory committee voted early Friday to reverse decades-old guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that recommended a hepatitis B vaccine for ...