Tag: "U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"
US CDC ends guidance that all newborns should get hepatitis B vaccine, in major policy shift
World 10:36 17/12/2025The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday ended a long-standing recommendation that all U.S. newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare provider, to decide whether infants born to hepatitis B-negative mothers should get the vaccine, including the birth dose.
US Health Secretary Kennedy guts vaccine advisory committee
World 12:08 10/06/2025Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired all 17 members of a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel of vaccine experts and is in the process of replacing them, his department said on Monday, drawing protest from many vaccine scientists.
