The decision by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B ...

The revised guidelines also will lead to more than $20 million in extra health care costs, the research shows.

Researchers found that the decision to delay the once-universal hepatitis B shot for babies will likely cause a surge in ...

Federal vaccine advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted in December to recommend delaying the first shot ...

New research warns that missing the hepatitis B vaccine at birth sharply reduces the likelihood of infants completing the full series, raising future infection risks. The findings come as the CDC’s ...

Two new studies published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) demonstrate that delaying ...

The Trump administration’s recommendation against universal hepatitis B vaccination for babies on the day they’re born could ...

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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 ...

New studies warn delaying the hepatitis B birth dose could leave more babies vulnerable to infection and long-term illness.

The U.S. government long advised that all babies be immunized against hepatitis B right after birth, but a federal vaccine advisory committee voted Dec. 5 to do away with that recommendation. Health ...