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CDC advisers end universal hepatitis B vaccine birth-dose policy: What parents need to know
On December 5, 2025, the CDC’s vaccine advisers voted to overturn the universal recommendation that every newborn receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The decision came in an 8 to 3 vote by the ...
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Friday publicly called for the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reject a vaccine advisory panel’s recommendation to no longer ...
U.S. federal guidelines currently recommend that all newborns get a dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, but a CDC advisory committee has voted to change that approach. Here’s what’s at stake. Today a ...
The vaccine advisory panel at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to stop recommending universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, signaling another major shift in the ...
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also changed the guidance for which babies should get the vaccine Robert Malone speaks during the meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on ...
A change to the hepatitis B recommendations would be the most significant change to the childhood vaccine schedule yet under US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime ...
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon and Bluesky. You can reach Helen on ...
The Center for Disease Control recently attracted national attention for ending its long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a standard hepatitis B vaccination. Much less discussion ...
The CDC has formally adopted a recommendation from its vaccine advisory panel to stop recommending hepatitis B vaccination for every newborn at birth. The agency said Tuesday that the childhood ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours ...
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has changed its recommendation for newborn hepatitis B vaccinations, lifting the previous guideline that infants receive ...
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