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CDC vaccine committee overturns decades-old hepatitis B recommendation for newborns

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee voted to eliminate a recommendation that all newborn babies receive a vaccine against hepatitis B, ending a policy that has been in place since ...

CDC vaccine panel votes to stop recommending birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding ...

CDC advisory panel votes to change hepatitis B vaccine guidance

Most Wisconsin children received a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth in 2024, and about 83% had completed the series ...

What to know about the hepatitis B shot for infants ahead of CDC vaccine panel meeting

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee could vote this week to change hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for children. Here's ...

CDC issues new guidelines on Hepatitis B infant’s vaccine schedule

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new guidance on the vaccine schedule for infants. Now, the agency is ...

CDC vaccine advisory committee meets to discuss hepatitis B shot, childhood immunization schedule

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the childhood vaccine schedule, adjuvants ...

CDC advisory panel rolls back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation

The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health ...

CDC vaccine advisers’ new focus on hepatitis B tests in pregnancy is not enough, some doctors warn

Relying on testing to guide vaccination recalls an approach the United States tried in the 1980s and early ’90s that still ...

CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines after unruly, misinformation-filled meeting

In a chaotic meeting Thursday rife with misinformation, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel — whose members Health Secretary ...

CDC vaccine advisory committee votes to remove universal recommendation for hepatitis B shot at birth

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at ...

CDC advisers could reverse newborn hepatitis B vaccine recommendations

Hepatitis B vaccines given at birth have essentially eliminated the disease in kids. A vote this week could upend that ...

CDC vaccine advisers vote against universal hepatitis B shots for kids in move that critics say ‘makes America sicker’

In significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a massive shift ...