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

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 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.

A federal advisory panel recommended stopping hepatitis B vaccines in newborns immediately after birth, the standard protocol for more than 30 years.

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Dr. Chari Cohen, president of the Hepatitis B Foundation, says there is no scientific basis for scaling back newborn hepatitis B shots.

Writing in separate editorials in two leading medical journals, former chiefs of federal scientific agencies issued warnings about the changes being proposed to vaccine frameworks by current officials ...

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