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

In significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a massive shift ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at ...

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

The change represents a continued shift in the agency’s vaccine policy, reflecting increasingly skeptical views.

Hospitals for decades have provided babies their first hepatitis B vaccine. Now doctors' offices might administer the shot.

On January 10th, 1985, six-year-old Michael Mayfield and his five-year-old sister, Pamela, were walking home from Betsy Ross ...

Last year was the most severe flu season in over a decade in the United States. And this year, a new strain of the flu is ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to overhaul how children get vaccines took a major step forward. An advisory committee voted to narrow hepatitis B immunization guidance for newborns.