By Nancy Lapid Feb 23 (Reuters) - Use of hepatitis B vaccines in U.S. newborns was declining well before the Centers for ...

A new research study shows that hepatitis B vaccination rates among newborns in the U.S. declined by more than 10 percent ...

A CDC panel voted on Friday to end a universal recommendation for newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth, instead recommending shared decision-making to determine when or ...

The President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) called the move “heartbreaking” and “deeply disappointing” The U.S. Centers for Disease Control officially accepted recommendations to stop ...

Are up to 20,000 young children, who have barely taken a breath in this world, at risk of being struck down? That is the narrative surrounding the removal of the recommendation for Hepatitis B (HBV) ...

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a shift to a personalized approach for hepatitis B vaccination. The CDC's new policy change Tuesday allows parents of infants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel is holding two days of meetings about childhood vaccine ...

A Rolling Stone investigation uncovered irregularities in the ethics review of a $1.6 million research grant to examine the ...

Hepatitis A and hepatitis B can be prevented with vaccines. CDC recommends all eligible gay and bisexual men get vaccinated ...