CDC panel delays vote on newborn hepatitis B vaccine
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed a vote until Friday on whether to change a longstanding recommendation that newborns should receive the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong,
A new study by the Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) for the first time concurrently estimated the daily salt and iodine consumption levels of the adult population in India and examined the effect of the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended salt intake levels on iodine levels.
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CDC reconsiders timing of hepatitis B short for babies
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel met Thursday for the first of two days of discussions about childhood vaccine schedules and recommendations. The panel is focusing on the hepatitis B vaccine and plans to vote on whether to continue recommending it be given to all children at birth or delay the first dose.
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says Louisiana leads the nation in Flu cases. Dr. Richard Camm says surrounding states are seeing similar increases in cases, but it is not known what is causing this trend.
"There are some signs that another big norovirus season is ahead of us," Emory University Professor Ben Lopman told Newsweek.
Americans’ confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has plummeted, according to a 2025 National Foundation for Infectious Diseases survey, and many young people are
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'Winter Vomiting Disease' Is Spreading Rapidly in the US, CDC Data Shows
The name of the disease creeping across America is bad enough, but what makes the “winter vomiting disease” much like a malevolent holiday Grinch is that its numbers are creeping upwards. Officially,
Dr. Dowdle, a microbiologist who became the No. 2 official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helped lead the nation’s response to AIDS.