Dec 4 (Reuters) - Vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were expected to vote on Thursday on whether to scrap a broad recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for children, ...

Update: On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine panel voted 8-3 to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The committee kept the recommendation that babies of ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...

A Rolling Stone investigation uncovered irregularities in the ethics review of a $1.6 million research grant to examine the effects of a birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau ...

WASHINGTON — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to approve new recommendations delaying the child hepatitis B vaccine for infants Friday, providing a win for the Make America ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 last ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel’s recommendation to no longer ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of ...

On Friday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 8-3 to end its recommendation that all infants receive a vaccine for hepatitis B at birth. The vote came after a contentious ...

An advisory panel appointed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Hepatitis B is highly infectious and incurable. Doctors urge parents to vaccinate ...