Hepatitis C is a serious condition that can greatly affect your liver and overall health. The culprit is a virus called hepatitis C virus (HCV), which typically gets into a person’s system through ...

Hepatitis doesn’t always announce itself. While hepatitis A often comes on abruptly, as with a bad stomach bug, most cases of ...

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel ...

Do newborns need the hepatitis B vaccine to B healthy? That’s slated to be deliberated Thursday at a meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The influential vaccine ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially abandoned universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns on ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer.

For decades, it’s been standard practice in the U.S. to administer a hepatitis B vaccine to newborns. The dose is typically ...