TONIGHT AT A CDC MEETING IN ATLANTA, ADVISORS ARE DEBATING BIG CHANGES FOR CHILDHOOD VACCINES. THEY HAD PLANNED TO VOTE ON THAT TODAY ON WHETHER TO DELAY THE HEPATITIS B SHOT FOR NEWBORNS, BUT THEY ...

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 ...

A group of independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting this week, and a key item on the agenda is the hepatitis B vaccine. After presentations about ...

Days after CDC advisors voted to end the universal birth dose for hepatitis B, local doctors are getting questions from confused patients and looking beyond the CDC for vaccine guidance. Hepatitis B ...

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Hepatitis B is a viral infection of the liver. It can resolve without treatment, or it may worsen and cause cirrhosis or liver cancer. A vaccine against the hepatitis B virus has been available since ...

Hep B Vaccine: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump defended a decision by a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel to stop recommending that newborn babies receive a first dose of the hepatitis B ...

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