Hepatitis is an inflammation of your liver in reaction to certain substances and can affect how well your liver functions.

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel ...

As hepatitis B research progresses, achieving higher functional cure rates is becoming more feasible. It is vital that ...

The U.S. government long advised that all babies be immunized against hepatitis B right after birth, but a federal vaccine ...

Spokane pediatrician Dr. Sarah d’Hulst has “basically never” treated a baby with hepatitis B. She fears that may change soon.

Hepatitis B is a life-threatening liver infection that is caused by the hepatitis B virus, whereas, hepatitis D infection only occurs in people who are infected with the hepatitis B virus. It ...

RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel voted to recommend a return to a public health strategy that was abandoned more than three decades ...

Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven’t had to face in ...

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) began its December 4 and 5, 2025, meeting today, launching two ...

Doctors urging parents to continue getting newborns shots after a federal advisory panel voted to relax its recommendations ...

In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying ...

Public health experts are concerned that delaying hepatitis B vaccinations for newborns could increase rates of the ...