Decades after HBV infection, patients can develop liver failure and require a liver transplant. Because there is no cure for HBV infections, patients often have recurrent liver disease after a transplant.

The best way to prevent hepatitis B infection is vaccination. The vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection in infants and for long-term protection into adulthood.

As RFK Jr.'s new vaccine panel ponders changing the hepatitis B vaccination schedule, some doctors recall past patients, including children, who died painful deaths before there was a vaccine.

This week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the group that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccines for all Americans, will discuss whether to change its recommendations for the hepatitis B vaccine.

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today, and they could vote on possible changes to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates from the meeting.

My father didn’t know it, but by the time his urine had turned dark, the color of tea, he had only a month or so to live. Until then, he had seemed fine, at most a little tired in the weeks before. This didn’t seem unusual for a young father of two kids — me, a toddler, and my brother, a kindergartner.

A landmark inquiry investigating the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS is set to conclude on Monday. Between the 1970s and early 1990s, patients were given contaminated blood and blood products. They included people who needed blood ...

Shapiro Administration physicians urge CDC and RFK Jr. vaccine panel to reaffirm recommendations for hepatitis B vaccination, starting at birth.