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 ...

Children who were vaccinated against Covid-19 last season had a “substantially lower risk” of emergency department and urgent ...

COVID-19 vaccines given to children last fall helped keep many out of emergency rooms (ER) and urgent care, new data shows.

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding ...

Days after an RFK panel with the CDC said it's OK to delay hepatitis B vaccines, a Michigan congresswoman sought his ...

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 ...

Last season's COVID-19 vaccine significantly reduced kids' emergency room and urgent care visits, newly released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows. Why it matters: The data ...

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

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.

California is hiring former senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials to help launch a public health ...