Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine panel on Thursday delayed a vote on the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.

Make America Healthy Again is a polarizing slogan, to say the least, but never more than when babies are at the center of the ...

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

For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth.

In the upside-down world of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines are on the ropes.

Some public health experts expressed concerns the recommendation could lead to an increase in hepatitis B infections in ...

A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B ...

On the Tuesday, December 9, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: A vaccine panel led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to end the longstanding recommendation for ...

The three-dose hepatitis B vaccine has a long track record of safety, but rolling back recommendations could leave kids ...

The CDC’s top vaccine advisory panel has voted to end the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B shot within 24 hours of birth if their mothers test negative for the ...

The panel may vote to change the hepatitis B birth dose recommendation.