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RI recommends hepatitis B vaccine for newborns

Why are hepatitis B shots given to newborns? Can birth doses wait? Here’s what to know

A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday morning to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.

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CDC vaccine panel votes to stop recommending birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns

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RI recommends hepatitis B vaccine for newborns, despite federal vote

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Panel Votes to Stop Recommending Hepatitis B Shots at Birth for Most Newborns

A federal panel voted on Friday to recommend halting the at-birth shots for all infants, in a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending the nation’s vaccine policy.

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Trump defends controversial new hep B vaccine guidance for babies

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CDC Panel Ends Call for All Newborns to Get Hepatitis B Vaccine

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RFK Jr. Panel Ends Longtime Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shot at Birth

Critics say the decision reverses more than three decades of successful disease-prevention strategy and ignores expert pleas to keep the birth dose in place.

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US vaccine committee scraps recommendation for hepatitis B shot in all newborns

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US panel votes to end recommending hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns

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Hepatitis B: What parents should know about the virus and the vaccine

For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.