A demonstrator holds a sign outside the Center for Disease Control (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Thursday, December 4, 2025. An influential panel of US vaccine advisers is expected to reverse a longstanding recommendation that babies receive hepatitis B shots within 24 hours of birth, a change public health experts say is all but certain to endanger children. | Megan Varner/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The federal government is ending its recommendation that every infant receive a hepatitis B vaccination at birth, the most substantive change to the childhood immunization...
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