The decision to stop recommending the hepatitis B vaccine at birth affects real American families and weakens one of our most effective cancer-prevention tools (“Vaccine Panel Nixes Hepatitis B ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a shift to a personalized approach for hepatitis B vaccination. The CDC's new policy change Tuesday allows parents of infants ...

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 ...

Many doctors and public health leaders urged the CDC to reject the committee’s recommendation. (HealthDay News) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rescinded its long-standing ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rescinded its long-standing advice on universal hepatitis B vaccination of newborns. Under the new policy, parents of babies born to mothers ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved a sweeping change to the nation’s childhood immunization schedule Tuesday, endorsing a recommendation from a federal advisory panel to drop the ...

A vaccine advisory committee to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to change the recommendations for when babies should get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. That ...

For most American infants, the hepatitis B shot comes just before their first bath, in the blur of pokes, prods and pictures that attend a 21st century hospital delivery. But as of this week, ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new guidance on the vaccine schedule for infants. Now, the agency is recommending the Hepatitis B vaccine be administered no ...

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 ...

Most Democratic-led states say they will continue to universally recommend and administer the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite new guidance against it issued last week by a federal vaccine ...

Multiple states and major medical societies say they will continue to universally recommend hepatitis B vaccination for newborns in a break with newly revised guidance from the CDC’s Advisory ...