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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy's vociferous opposition to the nation’s tightening vaccination policies is becoming more pointed, ...