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

CDC recommendations have been altered for another vaccine, to the confusion of vaccination experts. The Observer has answers ...

A U.S. vaccine advisory panel on Friday scrapped its long-standing recommendation that all infants receive the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, handing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a major ...

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 ...

Following a meeting in December 2025, the CDC vaccine advisory has finally voted to end the "blanket" hepatitis B vaccination ...

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 ...

Learn why the hepatitis B vaccine is recommended for newborns and how it protects infants from a potentially deadly liver ...

Recent changes to ACIP leadership and vaccine guidance have raised concerns that longstanding immunization protections are ...

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 about ...

Public health experts are sounding the alarm over major changes to US vaccine policy under the Trump administration. There are real clinical lasting impacts from changing these recommendations. The ...