Hepatitis B is a liver infection that inflames the organ and impacts its ability to function. It can be either acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term), and is estimated to impact between 880,000 and ...

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend ...

The nation’s top vaccine advisory panel is expected to debate on whether to delay the first dose of the hepatitis B shot on Thursday. The immunization, originally developed in Philadelphia and long ...

A panel that issues advice on U.S. vaccine policy appears prepared to vote Thursday to recommend a delay in when most babies ...

Do newborns need the hepatitis B vaccine to B healthy? That’s slated to be deliberated Thursday at a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The influential vaccine ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

Health experts breathed a sigh of relief as members of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine panel voted to maintain current guidance on a vaccine that has been ...

A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying, until age 4, the hepatitis B vaccine that ...

A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying until age 4 the ...