CDC advisers delay crucial vote on hepatitis B vaccination

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CDC advisory panel delays vote on hepatitis B vaccines after unruly, misinformation-filled meeting
In a chaotic meeting on Thursday rife with misinformation, the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel — whose members Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired in June and replaced with a group that has larg...

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CDC panel postpones vote on hepatitis B vaccine for newborns, discusses childhood immunization schedule
CDC advisers delay crucial vote on hepatitis B vaccination in tense meeting
How RFK Jr., CDC recommendations could limit hepatitis B vaccine
An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will vote Dec. 5 whether to recommend that children should be vaccinated against the highly infectious hepatitis B virus at birth o...

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What to Know About the Hepatitis B Shot — and Why Trump Officials Are Targeting It
CDC reconsiders timing of hepatitis B short for babies
US vaccine committee's hepatitis B changes would be most consequential yet
A review of more than 400 studies and reports by independent vaccine experts released on Tuesday found that the U.S. policy of giving the hepatitis B vaccine to newborns cut infections in children by ...

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Fate of hepatitis B vaccine for US babies hangs in the balance
What to know about hepatitis B infection and vaccination

CDC poised to decide on hep B vaccine for newborns amid pressure from Trump officials

A CDC advisory panel met Thursday to debate changing the recommended birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, potentially putting the preventative measure out of reach for millions of poor families.

Under restructuring threat, CDC committee mulls controversial childhood vaccine changes

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
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