Doctors, hospitals and public health departments are scrambling to ensure proper care for pregnant women and their babies following a controversial vote from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the members of his newly appointed vaccine panel are casting doubt ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s hand-picked vaccine panel postponed a vote on whether to delay the first dose of the hepatitis B shot from birth to at least one month for ...

Hepatitis, literally an inflammation of the liver, has several causes, including viral infection. The most common viruses are hepatitis A (HAV), hepatitis B (HBV), and hepatitis C (HCV). There is also ...

The vaccine advisory panel at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to stop recommending universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, signaling another major shift in the ...

The Trump administration is continuing its push to revise federal guidelines to delay the hepatitis B vaccine newborn dose for most children. This comes despite a failed attempt to do so at the most ...

Days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rescinded longstanding recommendations for newborns to receive the hepatitis B vaccine, a Michigan lawmaker has introduced a measure to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel is holding two days of meetings about childhood vaccine schedules, and plans to vote Friday on whether to continue recommending ...

Hepatitis B viral load is the amount of hepatitis B virus (HBV) found in a person’s bloodstream. Hepatitis B is a viral infection that can pass from person to person through bodily fluids. It ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the members of his newly appointed vaccine panel are casting doubt on the hepatitis B vaccine and the established practice of vaccinating ...