The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) continues to recommend routine hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns. Some medical centers, including Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), ...

The West Coast Health Alliance recommends the vaccine, despite the CDC's change in guidance last December.

Before the United States began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B vaccine in 1991, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday – about half of ...

The hepatitis B vaccine has emerged as the latest flashpoint as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to cast doubt on the safety of vaccines. The vaccine is routinely given to babies ...

Giving some newborns in Guinea-Bissau an established hepatitis B treatment but not others is "unethical", it says.

A Rolling Stone investigation uncovered irregularities in the ethics review of a $1.6 million research grant to examine the ...

On Friday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to overturn a 34-year-old policy recommending hepatitis B vaccination for infants.

Hepatitis B vaccinations for Oregon newborns fell to 82% in 2024 from 86% in 2022, while birth parent screening also having ...

Over the past four years, health officials at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) have tracked a small but significant drop in newborn hepatitis B vaccination, at the same time they’ve documented a drop ...

Thursday to remove hepatitis B from the list of required vaccines in New Hampshire. Rep. Kelley Potenza, a Rochester ...