The childhood vaccines that the CDC is dropping from the recommended scheduled have successfully beat back illness and death ...

If you’ve heard of hepatitis C (hepa-what?!), you might think of actress Pamela Anderson, who was diagnosed with the disease in the early 2000s. Or maybe you associate it with people who have ...

Federal health officials upended the immunization schedule for American children this week. These are the diseases affected.

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research in Cancer (WHO-IARC) has now declared hepatitis D, a little-known but deadly virus, carcinogenic, with the hope that it will lead to ...

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 ...

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

Hepatitis B is a viral infection that impacts the liver. To test for hepatitis B, a doctor can perform a blood test that detects hepatitis B surface antigens. A positive result indicates a hepatitis B ...

Hepatitis B is not a particularly common condition in the United States. Data from 2021 estimates that between 880,000 and 1.89 million individuals are living with chronic hepatitis B in the U.S. This ...

The change follows a controversial recommendation from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to no ...

Kerala is facing a severe hepatitis A outbreak, with over 31,500 cases and 82 deaths reported by late December. The ...

Kerala faces a Hepatitis A outbreak. Know why super-chlorination is crucial and how to safely treat drinking water at home to ...

The Tuskegee syphilis study stands as one of the greatest moral failures in American medical history, a reminder of what ...