Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel is holding two days of meetings about childhood vaccine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s influential vaccine advisory panel has voted to no longer universally ...

As U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel gears up to debate hepatitis B immunization for infants this week, health experts say that delaying the shot usually given at ...

When Dr. Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That's when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. "I ...

The Trump administration is continuing its push to revise federal guidelines to delay the hepatitis B vaccine newborn dose for most children. This comes despite a failed attempt to do so at the most ...

ATLANTA - A federal vaccine advisory panel selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not vote on changing the CDC’s recommendations around the hepatitis B vaccine as expected. The panel, ...

Daniel covers the intersection of the health industry and the federal government. He reports on corporate influence in government, the health consequences of federal policies, and the politics of ...

U.S. federal guidelines currently recommend that all newborns get a dose of a hepatitis B vaccine, but a CDC advisory committee has voted to change that approach. Here’s what’s at stake. Today a ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Elaine’s stories explore the boom in new obesity treatments, new drug ...

Update: The CDC's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for babies whose mothers test negative for the virus. Read the latest here. Our ...

Update: The CDC's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for babies whose mothers test negative for the virus. Read the latest here. Our ...