The one demographic that’s especially susceptible to COVID-19 hospitalizations but is ineligible for the vaccine? Infants ...

July 17 (UPI)--A new antibody shot that protects babies against RSV infection could be struggling to gain traction, researchers report. Only about a third (35%) of babies eligible for nirsevimab got ...

Hepatitis B is a virus that can damage the liver and lead to lifelong health problems. The hepatitis B vaccine prevents short-term illness (acute hepatitis) and a life-threatening infection called ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign to remake how doctors use vaccines recently took a big legal hit. A federal judge in Boston blocked, at least temporarily, ...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is still recommending babies get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, breaking again with new guidance from federal officials who are increasingly pulling back ...

The 8-3 decision marks a return to a public health strategy that was abandoned more than three decades ago. A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation ...

U.S. federal guidelines currently recommend that all newborns get a dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, but a CDC advisory committee has voted to change that approach. Here’s what’s at stake. Today a ...

In a historic vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisers recommended narrowing the agency's hepatitis B immunization guidance for newborns. The result, if approved by the ...

Newborns arrive with almost no vitamin K stored in their bodies. Vitamin K is the nutrient that allows blood to clot—without ...