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CDC adopts shared decision-making recommendation for hepatitis B birth dose

The CDC has officially updated its immunization schedule to reflect its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ ...

CDC signs off on change in newborn hepatitis b vaccine schedule

The CDC revises newborn hepatitis B vaccine guidelines: parents of low-risk babies now decide with doctors. Read more here.
Scientific Research Publishing

Vaccine Response against Hepatitis B Virus in Patients with Chronic Kidney Failure Not on Dialysis and Factors Associated with Poor Response ()

Vaccine Response against Hepatitis B Virus in Patients with Chronic Kidney Failure Not on Dialysis and Factors Associated ...
The Philadelphia Tribune

What could CDC changes to hepatitis B vaccines mean for infants and families in Pennsylvania and New Jersey?

Public health experts are concerned that delaying hepatitis B vaccinations for newborns could increase rates of the ...
Scientific American

CDC Vaccine Panel Scraps Guidance for Universal Hepatitis B Shots at Birth

The new guidance would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut infections by 99 percent in the U.S.

CDC vaccine panel endorses change to newborn hepatitis b vaccine schedule

A panel of advisors to the CDC has voted to change the current recommendation that all newborns should start to receive the three-shot hepatitis b vaccine shortly after birth.
The New York Times

Panel Votes to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Shots at Birth for Most Newborns

In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying the shots for infants whose mothers test negative for the virus. By ...