“The American people have benefited from the committee’s well-informed, rigorous discussion about the appropriateness of a ...

The new guidance would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut ...

Parents will still be able to get the hepatitis B vaccine for their children at no cost even though the US Centers for ...

In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended ...

The best way to prevent hepatitis B infection is vaccination. The vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection in ...

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) decided on the 5th to abolish, after 34 years, its 1991 universal recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of ...

After a contentious discussion, the vaccine advisory group pushed the vote to Friday to give members time to study the ...

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Friday to end its recommendation that newborns be universally vaccinated against hepatitis B. Here are four fact-checks from the panel's ...

The outbreak blamed on "gym exposure" is relatively small, but it has helped push cases tied to the Legionella bacteria to a ...

By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Christy Santhosh Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a ...

Shingles and chicken pox are caused by the same virus, herpes zoster. After a chicken pox infection, the virus hides in some ...