Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the ...

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the CDC's guidance is now to consult a health care provider ...

(CNN) — A group of independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting this week, and a key item on the agenda is the hepatitis B vaccine. After presentations ...

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 ...

For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The U.S. government has long advised that all babies be immunized against hepatitis B right after birth. But on Friday, a ...