Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

On Jan 5, 2026, the Acting Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signed a decision memorandum from the heads of the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday ended a long-standing recommendation that all U.S. newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in ...

The CDC, acting on a presidential directive, approved major changes to the U.S. childhood immunization schedule, reducing routine vaccines from 17 diseases to 11 and shifting several to shared ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) headquarters pictured in February in Washington, D.C. The CDC's new policy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The CDC will now recommend shared decision-making with health care providers for mothers who test negative for hepatitis B and are ...

Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven't had to face in many years: how to protect newborns against hepatitis B.Last week, a federal ...

The CDC has ended its decades-long policy recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted controversial guidance from its advisory ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a shift to a personalized approach for hepatitis B vaccination. The CDC's new policy change Tuesday allows parents of infants ...