In a meeting punctuated by conflict and confusion, the independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

CDC vaccine advisors again postponed their vote on changes to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants, this time ...

More than three-quarters of American adults didn't get a COVID shot last season, a figure that health care experts warn could rise this year amid new U.S. government recommendations. The COVID vaccine ...

A federal advisory committee voted Friday to lift a 30-year-old recommendation that all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine.

RFK Jr.’s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy.

Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country. The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination ...

A majority — eight members — voted that women who have tested negative for hepatitis B should consult with clinicians on when ...

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote ...

Some Alberta pediatricians say making childhood immunizations routinely available in pediatric hospitals could help improve slumping vaccination rates in the province. But the Alberta government is ...

Experts who spoke with MedPage Today also pointed to the impact of pneumococcal vaccines. Though a vaccine for adults was available decades earlier, the turn of the century brought one for kids that ...

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