Do newborns need the hepatitis B vaccine to B healthy? That’s slated to be deliberated Thursday at a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The influential vaccine ...

This month, a federal vaccine advisory committee voted to end a long-standing recommendation that all babies receive the Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of being born. They now recommend a ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born. For decades, the government has advised ...

For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Update: On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine panel voted 8-3 to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The committee kept the recommendation that babies of ...

Adeno-associated virus 2 was present in high amounts in liver tissue and blood in nearly all the children with unexplained hepatitis in the studies. And it was only rarely found in healthy kids, those ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is expected to vote to recommend delaying the hepatitis B shot typically given at birth to age 4. Do newborns need the hepatitis B vaccine to B ...