Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. Updated, Dec. 5: This story, originally published Dec. 4, has been ...

For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

If you grew up being taught that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, you’re not alone. Millions of us were indoctrinated with the idea that eating that morning meal is what tells your ...

David Higgins is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and volunteer board member for Immunize Colorado. Before the United States began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B ...

• Today’s meeting: Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to abandon universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns, instead recommending individual ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially abandoned universal hepatitis B vaccination for newborns on Tuesday, signing off on its vaccine advisers’ recommendation for individual ...