A group of independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting this week, and a key item on the agenda is the hepatitis B vaccine. After presentations about ...

A CDC panel voted on Friday to end a universal recommendation for newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth, instead recommending shared decision-making to determine when or ...

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a known vaccine skeptic — was appointed as Secretary of Health and Human Services in February, it was only a matter of time before he took steps to loosen requirements ...

CONTINUING OUR COVERAGE ON THE DECISION BY CDC ADVISERS TO STOP RECOMMENDING THE HEPATITIS B VACCINATION TO ALL NEWBORNS. INSTEAD, THEY RECOMMEND PARENTS DECIDE WHEN OR IF THEIR CHILDREN SHOULD GET ...

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A bill filed by Republican state Rep. Kelley Potenza, House Bill 1719, seeks to remove hepatitis B from the list of vaccines ...

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

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

When Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That’s when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. “I was ...