The CDC's move follows a vote from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel that entails a major ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory panel meets Thursday and Friday to discuss recommendations for the hepatitis B vaccine and the schedule of childhood shots.

Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 8-3 to instead recommend a shared clinical decision-making process for infants born to mothers who test negative for hepatitis ...

A CDC advisory panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. no longer recommends that babies get a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an independent group of physicians and public health officials that develops guidance about the use of vaccines in the country, voted on Friday ...

Members appointed under RFK Jr. argued universal guidance was too broad, while medical groups said the change jeopardizes decades of near-eradication. A powerful advisory group within the CDC voted ...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted Friday to end the long-standing recommendation that all babies get vaccinated against Hepatitis B. The ...

The US Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends that all US newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel voted Dec. 5 to recommend not requiring the hepatitis B vaccine to be administered at birth for all newborns, instead suggesting some ...

A panel that makes recommendations on vaccines to the nation’s health leaders suggested changing a policy that’s been in place for over 30 years.