“The American people have benefited from the committee’s well-informed, rigorous discussion about the appropriateness of a vaccination in the first few hours of life,” said Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and CDC Acting Director Jim O’Neill.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has voted 8 to 3 to shift to an individualized, parent-driven decision-making approach for administering the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose to infants born to mothers who test negative for the virus.

Hepatitis B is a viral infection that impacts the liver. To test for hepatitis B, a doctor can perform a blood test that detects hepatitis B surface antigens. A positive result indicates a hepatitis B infection. Hepatitis B is a type of viral hepatitis.

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.

Hepatitis B testing can show whether you have a current or past HBV infection and whether you have antibodies from a hepatitis B vaccine. Hepatitis B is a viral infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It can cause liver inflammation (hepatitis ...

HANGZHOU, China and SHAOXING, China, Nov. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672) announces today that the interim results of 44 chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients from a Phase IIb trial of ASC22 (Envafolimab), a subcutaneously ...

This large-scale exploratory study demonstrated that the prevalence of HDV antibody positivity was very low (0.24%) in Chinese patients with chronic HBV infection, with only one of the 4,936 patients enrolled in the study testing positive for HDV RNA.