The CDC's vaccine advisory committee could vote this week to change hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for children. Here's what to know about the shot.

In significant move so far, the newly appointed US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisers voted Friday to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, a massive shift in US immunization policy that experts say will lead to increased illness.

By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Christy Santhosh Dec 5 (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all American newborns receive the hepatitis B shot,

In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended to protect them from a virus that attacks the liver.

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.

An influential CDC panel may recommend significant delays in hepatitis B vaccinations for children. Here's what could happen.

By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Christy Santhosh Dec 5 (Reuters) - A group of vaccine advisers on Friday scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all U.S. children receive the hepatitis B shot at birth,

The decision undoes a highly effective 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B infections in the U.S.

A vaccine advisory panel on Friday voted to end its recommendation that kids receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth