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Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots on the ...

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel will debate and possibly delay a key immunization that protects babies from the hepatitis B virus. The influential ...

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. "I, alongside many of my colleagues, have a reaction that is mixed ...

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump on Friday ordered federal health officials to review the childhood immunization schedule and consider recommending fewer shots to align with other developed countries.