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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 vaccine advisory committee meets to discuss hepatitis B shot, childhood schedule
CDC advisers delay planned vote on hepatitis B vaccine for infants
Kennedy’s vaccine advisory committee meets to discuss hepatitis B shots for newborns
A federal vaccine advisory committee convened Thursday in Atlanta to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

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They contracted hepatitis before the vaccine was given at birth - now the shot may be delayed again
Will All Newborns Still Receive Hepatitis B Shots? A Committee’s Vote Will Tell.
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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Hepatitis B infant shot: Health experts concerned over potential changes in vaccine panel's guidance
CDC to recommend parent choice for hepatitis B vaccines for newborns

CDC's vaccine advisers are likely to make a controversial change to long-used vaccine

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

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

Previewing the CDC’s December Vaccine Advisory Meeting

The vaccine advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet Dec. 4 and 5. On the agenda: the hepatitis B vaccine, the overall childhood vaccine schedule and specific vaccine ingredients.
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CDC's Outbreak Alert; New Hair-Loss Drug; Why Patients Dump Their Doctors

Amid an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in Ethiopia, the CDC alerted U.S. doctors to be on the lookout for travel cases of the Ebola-like virus. Meanwhile, at least 39 infants have been hospitalized in the botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart's recalled infant formula, according to the FDA.
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