The revised guidelines also will lead to more than $20 million in extra health care costs, the research shows.

Policy that recommends offering hep B vaccine at birth only to babies perceived to be at risk will lead to increased numbers ...

Few pathogens frustrate me more than Hepatitis A, because we have had a safe, effective vaccine against it since 1995, and we ...

The Trump administration’s recommendation against universal hepatitis B vaccination for babies on the day they’re born could ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted ...

The lesson from the past is simple. When we stop using vaccines that work, the diseases they prevent come back.

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially abandoned universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns on Tuesday, signing off on its vaccine advisers' recommendation for individual ...