Members of a top US vaccine advisory panel are scheduled to vote Friday on whether to roll back a decades-old recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine shortly after birth — a measure that has been associated with a sharp decline in ...

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the childhood vaccine schedule, adjuvants and contaminants, and the hepatitis B shot.

A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer.

Vaccine advisers to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday weighed in on whether to scrap a broad recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine for children, with a vote planned for later in the day, in what would be the most significant shift in U.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician and Republican health care leader in Congress, on Wednesday offered his harshest criticism yet of the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory panel considers the childhood vaccine schedule.