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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reducing the number of vaccines it recommends for children, officials said Monday, a major shift that officials say will bring the U.S. recommendations more similar to those of other developed countries.
A CDC advisory panel appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. no longer recommends that babies get a hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success, preventing more than 6 million hepatitis B ...
A CDC panel of vaccine advisors voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. Dr. Susan Kressly, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics says because of the move, “children in America are ...