Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven't had to face in many years: how to protect newborns against hepatitis B.Last week, a federal ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will adopt a recommendation from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to eliminate the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine ...

Parents want to protect their children from harm, and vaccines can raise concerns about side effects or effectiveness, especially when it comes to newborns. Pediatrician Dr. Scott Cyrus said those ...

A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday morning to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed its recommendation for newborn hepatitis B vaccinations, lifting the previous guideline that infants receive ...

It’s the first and only shot most U.S. babies receive: the hepatitis B vaccine—a constant for decades in U.S. newborn care that doctors say is responsible for virtually eliminating childhood cases of ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – There’s a growing concern among new and expecting mothers after a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory panel voted to change when healthy newborns should ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday ended a long-standing recommendation that all U.S. newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in ...