The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met on Dec. 4 and 5, as Democratic senators led by Colorado’s John Hickenlooper introduced a bill to “protect scientific

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

The BriefThe CDC’s vaccine advisory panel met to discuss changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, specifically focusing on the long-standing Hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.Health officials are concerned that changes could lead to health insurance providers dropping coverage for immunizations,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) newly reworked Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met Thursday to finally offer its recommendations for a universal hepatit | The CDC's vaccine advisory committee couldn't come to a consensus on the specific voting questions surrounding a potential change to the long-established newborn hepatitis B vaccine policy.

Public health experts warn delaying newborn hepatitis B shots could lead to preventable infections as a CDC advisory panel reconsiders long-standing vaccine guidelines.