An advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has postponed a vote on a proposed change to the ...

A group of advisers for the CDC voted to narrow existing recommendations for the combined MMRV shot that protects against ...

Donald Trump claimed there’s “no reason” to vaccinate a baby against hepatitis B, a highly contagious disease that can spread ...

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy said on Friday that a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts made the ...

The group was chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. amid controversy. It's changed guidance for for measles, mumps ...

U.S. vaccine advisers will reconvene on Friday for the second session of a key meeting to decide on hepatitis B and COVID-19 ...

Before the United States began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B vaccine in 1991, around 18,000 children ...

Medical experts say vaccination is the best prevention method for hepatitis B, a liver infection that can be acute or chronic ...

The CDC currently says a timely administration of a hepatitis B vaccine is essential to help prevent transmission of the virus from mother to child at birth. While efforts to test for this virus ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) immunity in individuals without HBV infection is associated with a reduced risk for diabetes.

The MMRV combination vaccine is associated with “a small increased risk” of febrile seizures after the first dose, according to the CDC. These findings led ACIP to change its guidance in 2009 to show ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not expected to change recommendations for hepatitis B vaccines in newborns ...