DALLAS — A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday morning to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee ...

The medical community is still reeling after a federal advisory panel voted to end the automatic hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a recommendation that has been in place for more than 30 years. Most of ...

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 ...

Update: The CDC's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for babies whose mothers test negative for the virus. Read the latest here. Our ...

(The Hill) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is no longer recommending giving all infants a dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth, approving a sweeping and ...

The ACIP is scheduled to discuss the hepatitis B vaccine recommended at birth. Ahead of a key meeting amongst the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisors -- now with 12 ...

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' move away from recommending routine hepatitis B vaccination at birth is being treated as either a triumph of “medical freedom” or a looming ...

The Rhode Island Department of Health supports the current hepatitis B vaccine schedule for newborns. A federal advisory committee, overhauled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., may vote to ...