Upending decades-old guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted to no longer issue a blanket recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will vote Dec. 5 whether to recommend that children should be vaccinated against the highly infectious hepatitis B virus at birth o...

Under the new guidance, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention almost always adopts, parents must consult with a healthcare provider about when to give a baby its first dose of the vacci...