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A vaccine that helps prevent liver disease is back in the spotlight as a federal advisory panel considers delaying the first shot for infants. The hepatitis B vaccine is a multi-dose series typically ...

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Do newborns need the hepatitis B vaccine to B healthy? That’s slated to be deliberated Thursday at a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The influential vaccine ...

WASHINGTON — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. Newborn hepatitis B ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood immunization schedule, including potentially changing recommendations on a shot given to ...