Amid policy shifts and a rise in misinformation fueling vaccine hesitancy, fewer infants in the U.S. are receiving the ...

The Trump administration’s recommendation against universal hepatitis B vaccination for babies on the day they’re born could ...

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The revised guidelines also will lead to more than $20 million in extra health care costs, the research shows.

Researchers found that the decision to delay the once-universal hepatitis B shot for babies will likely cause a surge in ...

The decision by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B ...

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 committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy voted Friday to stop recommending that all newborns be routinely vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus – ...

When Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That’s when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. “I was ...

Policy that recommends offering hep B vaccine at birth only to babies perceived to be at risk will lead to increased numbers ...