A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee voted to eliminate a recommendation that all newborn babies receive a vaccine against hepatitis B, ending a policy that has been in place since ...

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Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend ...

Relying on testing to guide vaccination recalls an approach the United States tried in the 1980s and early ’90s that still ...

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The CDC's vaccine advisory committee is set to meet Thursday and Friday to discuss the childhood vaccine schedule, adjuvants ...

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 guidance after 1991 recommended that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine at least 24 hours after birth, leading to a major decline in infections.

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