For many years, Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California, Davis, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been the “voice of reason for ...

Wisconsin health officials still recommend babies get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. They issued the guidance after a federal vaccine committee voted to stop recommending the birth dose of the ...

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 ...

Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for Disease and Control Prevention’s vaccine advisers recommended a major change to ...

A CDC committee’s decision to change longstanding hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies is the latest sign that vaccine skeptics are reshaping policies that aim to prevent the spread of ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of ...

A key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel voted Friday to reverse its longstanding recommendation that all newborns should be vaccinated for hepatitis B, a viral infection affecting more ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. government has long advised that all babies be immunized against hepatitis B right after birth. But on Friday, a federal vaccine advisory committee voted to do away with that ...