A federal advisory panel with power over vaccine policy has voted to stop recommending a universal newborn shot to prevent the hepatitis B virus, which causes liver disease — a major shakeup to the ...

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 ...

ATLANTA, GEORGIA - DECEMBER 4: Retsef Levi, left, and Raymond Pollak, right, are seen as a presenter from Vaccines for Children (VfC) speaks during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. Newborn hepatitis B ...

Members of a key vaccine panel have delayed a pivotal vote regarding the hepatitis B vaccine, while voting to amend recommendations to combination shots that target measles, mumps, rubella and ...

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 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has delayed a vote on changes to recommendations on giving a hepatitis B vaccine to newborns ...

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The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 in favor of limiting national recommendations on which infants should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The panel voted Dec. 5 to ...