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 ...

About 90% of infants infected at birth go on to develop chronic infection ...

In 1990 I was a pediatric infectious disease physician at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Our oncologist examined a patient who had an abdominal mass which turned out to be a ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past 34 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all babies receive their first ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A baby gets a bandaid after a vaccination. (Getty Images) A federal vaccine panel handpicked by Health and Human Services ...

A pediatrician warns that recent changes to U.S. vaccination guidance and falling newborn hepatitis B immunization rates could set the stage for a resurgence of the virus in infants. The shift away ...

Canada prides itself on equitable healthcare. Yet a Canadian child’s protection against hepatitis B – and against a ...

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 – ...