CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines

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CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines after unruly, misinformation-filled meeting
In a chaotic meeting on Thursday rife with misinformation, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel — whose members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired in June and replaced with a group that has larg...

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CDC advisers delay crucial vote on hepatitis B vaccination in sometimes-tense meeting
CDC panel postpones vote on hepatitis B vaccine for newborns
Kennedy’s handpicked CDC advisers to weigh major change to childhood vaccine schedule
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the childhood vaccine schedule, potentially delaying a dose of the hepatitis B vaccin...

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US vaccine committee's hepatitis B changes would be most consequential yet
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Fate of hepatitis B vaccine for US babies hangs in the balance
CDC panel postpones vote on hepatitis vaccine changes
Some members of the Centers for Disease Control's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices members complained on Thursday that they hadn't been given enough time to consider the proposed change be...

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Hepatitis B infant shot: Health experts concerned over potential changes in vaccine panel's guidance
CDC poised to decide on hep B vaccine for newborns amid pressure from Trump officials

CDC vaccine advisory committee meets to discuss hepatitis B shot, childhood immunization schedule

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the childhood vaccine schedule, adjuvants and contaminants, and the hepatitis B shot.

Mass. leaders raise concerns about vaccine confusion ahead of CDC meeting

Top medical leaders in Massachusetts are sounding the alarm amid fears the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) could recommend delaying when doctors give the hepatitis B vaccine at the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting in the nation's capital on Thursday.
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Expert review finds delaying the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose would increase chronic infections in kids

Delaying the timing of vaccinating infants against hepatitis B — which ACIP could vote on later this week — would likely lead to more chronic infections in kids.

US government weighs new CDC initiatives, prioritises Hepatitis B screening for pregnant women: Report

As per reports, US government rolls out new CDC initiatives and will prioritise hepatitis B screening for pregnant women. Read inside.