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 ...

In a sharp break from more than three decades of U.S. vaccine policy, a CDC advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending that every newborn receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. Members of the ...

In a stunning decision that defies all expert advice and scientific evidence, the influential group that shapes US vaccine policy will no longer recommend that all infants receive the hepatitis B ...

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 ...

A key vaccine panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 8-3 to nix a recommendation that all newborns be given a first dose of hepatitis B vaccine. The Friday vote, which came ...

Upending decades-old guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted to no longer issue a blanket recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B ...

The vaccine advisory panel at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to stop recommending universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, signaling another major shift in the ...

Spokane pediatrician Dr. Sarah d’Hulst has “basically never” treated a baby with hepatitis B. She fears that may change soon. On Friday, a federal panel tasked with providing vaccine guidance removed ...

On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine panel voted eight to three in favor of abandoning the universal recommendation of vaccinating newborns for hepatitis B, a dramatic ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted to change recommendations on Hepatitis B vaccines for children, recommending delaying them until a child is 2 months old ...

Vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Friday to no longer recommend all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth, ending the panel’s decadeslong guidance that ...