Vaccination decisions are influenced by science but also by trust and consistency, pediatrician Joshua Rothman writes for the ...

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 ...

Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven't had to face in many years: how to protect newborns against hepatitis B.Last week, a federal ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — A recommendation to change the hepatitis B vaccine sent shockwaves through the medical community and caused confusion. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory ...

The extreme politicization of a minor change to the hepatitis B vaccine recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is a ...

Most parents have never had to worry about hepatitis B. They have never had to hear the words liver cancer or cirrhosis linked to a child. For more than 30 years the U.S. has quietly protected ...

The Center for Disease Control recently attracted national attention for ending its long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a standard hepatitis B vaccination. Much less discussion ...