US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth

Arizona rejects CDC panel’s call to end hepatitis B shots for newborns

PHOENIX -- State health officials are going to continue recommending a hepatitis B shot for all newborns within 24 hours of birth despite a new recommendation to contrary Friday by a panel of the CDC.

Doctors rail against weakening hepatitis B vaccine recommendation

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Panel says not all babies need a hep B shot

NEW YORK — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end the long-standing recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine the day they're born.

Kennedy’s advisers scrap hepatitis B vaccine guidance for most children in major policy shift

U.S. vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B shot, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public health gains.

CDC Panel Votes to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Vaccine to Newborns, Experts Call It ‘Devastating to Children’s Health’

Medical experts called the decision “devastating to children’s health” Getty Stock image of the hepatitis B vaccine.NEED TO KNOWA panel of CDC vaccine advisors, handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voted to stop recommending the hepatitis B vaccine to all newbornsMedical experts called it “devastating to children’s health”President Donald Trump has called hepatitis B “sexually transmitted," but that is only on…