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CDC vaccine panel votes to stop recommending birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.

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CDC advisers vote to overturn decades-long policy on hepatitis B vaccine for infants
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4 fact-checks after CDC vaccine panel ends universal newborn hep B vaccine recommendations
Kennedy vaccine advisers 'turned back the clock,' experts say
U.S. vaccine advisers' decision to scrap longstanding guidance on hepatitis B shots will expose more children to the harmful virus and may signal how other evidence-based vaccine policies can be under...

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Hepatitis B Birth Dose: What Parents Should Know About New Guidelines
US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in all newborns
CDC vaccine panel ends recommendation that all newborns have Hepatitis B vaccine
At today's meeting, among the three members to vote against the new recommendation was Dr H. Cody Meissner, one of the committee's two pediatricians, who warned as he voted that the committee was 'doi...

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Insurance coverage of hepatitis B vaccine won’t change, industry and officials say
Trump praises new childhood vaccine recommendations after panel votes to drop Hepatitis B shot

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.
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Doctors: CDC Decision to Drop Hepatitis B Shot at Birth Taking Away Kids’ ‘Safety Net’

A CDC advisory committee has voted to alter the childhood vaccine schedule for hepatitis B. Doctors are raising concerns that the move upends decades of vaccination policy without evidence and will likely increase risks of chronic conditions for children.

RFK Jr. told CDC to change website's language on autism and vaccines

Public health experts, doctors and scientists have decried the update as the kind of misinformation the CDC has fought for decades.
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