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CDC panel to vote Friday on hepatitis B vaccine for newborns at meeting on childhood immunization schedule
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel is holding two days of meetings about childhood vaccine schedules, and plans to vote Friday on whether to continue recommending ...

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Kennedy’s handpicked CDC advisers to weigh major change to childhood vaccine schedule
CDC advisory panel votes to change hepatitis B vaccine guidance
CDC panel postpones vote on hepatitis vaccine changes
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s handpicked vaccine advisers postponed a Thursday vote on scrapping the government's recommendation that newborns get a hepatitis B shot amid confusion over wha...

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CDC advisers delay planned vote on hepatitis B vaccine for infants
CDC weighs major shift in childhood vaccine schedule
CDC vaccine advisory committee meets to discuss hepatitis B shot, childhood immunization schedule
"I think every single thing on that agenda is concerning," Dr. Richard Besser, resident and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and acting director of the CDC during the administration of former...

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CDC advisers to weigh major change to childhood vaccine schedule
CDC's vaccine advisers are likely to make a controversial change to long-used vaccine
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Trump hails CDC’s decision to end Hepatitis B vaccine for babies as ‘very good decision’
President Donald Trump praised the CDC panel’s vote to lift universal Hepatitis B shots, sparking warnings from health experts
RFK Jr.’s vaccine overhaul puts pregnant women and children at risk
A vaccine advisory panel on Friday voted to end its recommendation that kids receive hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
Nature
Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says
A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
The White House
Aligning United States Core Childhood Vaccine Recommendations with Best Practices from Peer, Developed Countries
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES THE DIRECTOR OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION SUBJECT:       Aligning United
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.
STAT
Pharmalittle: We’re reading about warnings from vaccine makers, the U.K. standoff with pharma, and more
U.S. health authorities are considering how they might discourage or even ban vaccines that rely on a common ingredient to boost their effectiveness
RFK Jr.’s upside-down world of vaccines, and how the hepatitis B move played out | News analysis
Friday's session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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