CDC advisory panel rolls back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation

The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health ...
West Hawaii Today

Kennedy’s advisers scrap hepatitis B vaccine guidance for most children in major policy shift

Kennedy’s advisers scrap hepatitis B vaccine guidance for most children in major policy shift – Nation and World News | West Hawaii Today ...
The News-Times

CT joins national push to open access to million-dollar sickle cell gene therapies through Medicaid

About 100,000 people in the U.S. have sickle cell disease, a condition that primarily affects people of color, the CDC says.

CDC vaccine advisory committee votes to remove hepatitis B vaccine recommendation at birth: What has changed, and what remains the same

Babies born to mothers who have hepatitis B infection are still strongly recommended to receive the hepatitis B vaccine at ...

CDC panel ends call for all newborns to get hepatitis B vaccine

An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to revoke a longstanding recommendation that all babies receive hepatitis B ...

HHS: Pritzker 'eroded public trust' in public health

(The Center Square) – A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman says Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker eroded public ...

US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in all newborns

A group of vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to remove the broad recommendation ...
Alaska Beacon

Hepatitis vaccines credited as life-saving for Alaska children may be upended

Hepatitis B, once rampant in Native villages, is no longer being spread to children. But federal panel now opposes vaccines ...

CDC advisers vote in support of major change to childhood vaccination

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are meeting today on what could be a major change to the childhood vaccination schedule. Follow here for live updates.

California urges newborn hepatitis B shots in defiance of federal shift

Despite a controversial federal shift on infant vaccination, California doctors and state health officials continue to back ...
Arkansas TimesOpinion

Change to Hep B vaccine schedule is dangerous, Arkansas pediatricians say

"Today’s decision to downgrade recommendations to protect all babies from Hepatitis B by the Advisory Committee on ...
PolitiFact

4 fact-checks after CDC vaccine panel ends universal newborn hep B vaccine recommendations

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 ...