The altered Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, without new data to justify a reassessment, will no longer recommend universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth. The committee voted 8–3 to ...

Federal vaccine advisers voted on Friday to delay routine Hepatitis B vaccination in infants, moving the United States closer in line with Western Europe and further out of step with global practice.

New moms and their babies will likely see a change in preventative treatment after they give birth, because of a decision by a federal vaccine panel that weakens longstanding guidance on the hepatitis ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. Updated, Dec. 5: This story, originally published Dec. 4, has been ...

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A CDC panel voted Friday to change the recommended birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Public insurance ...

In general, infants that are born very early are not considered to be viable until after 24 weeks gestation. This means that if you give birth to an infant before they are 24 weeks old, their chance ...

After heated disagreements, the committee members, appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delayed the vote until Friday morning. It was the third time the vote had been postponed. By ...

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 ...

In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying the shots for infants whose mothers test negative for the virus. By ...