Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

WASHINGTON, USA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating a botulism ...

SEATTLE — By now, many are likely familiar with sweeping changes to federal childhood vaccination recommendations as laid out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Local doctors in ...

A CDC panel voted on Friday to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine only to the babies of mothers who test positive for the virus, or whose status is unknown, and to suggest that, for all other babies, ...

The new findings come after the Trump administration in January took the unprecedented step of overhauling the CDC’s routine childhood immunization schedule.

Federal health officials are changing childhood vaccine recommendations, cutting the original list of 17 recommended vaccines down to just 11. Recommended vaccines for all children under new ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially ceased recommending vaccinating all newborns against hepatitis B at birth, breaking with 30 years of precedent and delivering a significant ...

A large number of federal workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were laid off, including some in error, as part of the Trump administration‘s response to the government shutdown, ...