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President Donald Trump publicly backed a vaccine advisory panel's decision to reverse decades of longstanding medical guidance.
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Kennedy's advisers scrap hepatitis B vaccine guidance for most children in major policy shift
U.S. vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B shot, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr that disease experts say will reverse decades of public health gains.
The first shot in the multi-dose vaccine has been recommended at birth for decades, but that could soon change.
Hepatitis B is a liver infection that inflames the organ and impacts its ability to function. It can be either acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term), and is estimated to impact between 880,000 and 1.89 million people in the United States. Those who ...