Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine panel on Thursday delayed a vote on the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.

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...

If the recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine is delayed past ages 2 or 3 months, pediatricians might avoid using those combination vaccines, Demetre Daskalakis, former director at the CDC's Natio...