The hepatitis B vaccine, which 'virtually eliminated' the disease in children, will no longer be given at birth unless parents request it, due to a new move from the CDC.

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the ...

The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa ...

Vaccination against hepatitis B is a common recommendation, but what exactly is it preventing? HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his advisory group plan to meet this week to discuss and vote on ...

Alaska public health officials continue to recommend the Hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, citing high rates of chronic ...

Six national medical societies expressed concern over a CDC panel’s vote to change infant hepatitis B vaccination guidelines, according to a Dec. 8 statement from the American Gastroenterological ...

Update: On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine panel voted 8-3 to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The committee kept the recommendation that babies of ...

A new rapid test for hepatitis C could help identify many more patients who could be cured of the deadly disease, but its use ...

Most Americans have never thought much about hepatitis B, and that’s precisely because the vaccine works so well.

The CDC estimates more than 640,000 adults in the U.S. have chronic hepatitis B. Fifteen to 25% of persons who develop the ...

Widespread contamination of groundwater sources, huge gaps in sanitation and poor environmental public health in general has been driving explosive outbreaks of Hepatitis A in Kerala since the past ...

Hamilton County prosecutors cited the claim Rhoda Nathan had the disease as one piece of evidence they considered in deciding to dismiss charges against Elwood Jones for her murder. Hamilton County ...