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WASHINGTON — Federal vaccine advisers, through a freewheeling, and at times combative two-day meeting, recommended a major change to childhood vaccinations that runs counter to the medical consensus — and began setting

A panel that advises on U.S. vaccine policy voted on Friday to recommend a delay in when most babies begin to be vaccinated against hepatitis B, overturning a 30-year-old policy that has

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WASHINGTON — The future of children’s vaccines was on the agenda at Friday’s meeting of federal vaccine advisers, who are reviewing the childhood schedule. Informing their discussion: a leader in the effort

Why now? I had three children without ever seeing a doctor. Why go looking for problems? That’s what Fatima, a 38-year-old Somali mother, said when I encouraged her to attend a prenatal

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stop using certain types of glucose monitor sensors after the company that makes them, Abbott Diabetes Care, said the devices were linked

PROVIDENCE — Ashish K. Jha, one of the nation’s leading public health experts who became a household name during the Covid pandemic, is leaving his post as the dean of the Brown University School of

WASHINGTON — A single HPV vaccination appears just as effective as two doses at preventing the viral infection that causes cervical cancer, researchers reported Wednesday. HPV, or human papillomavirus, is very common

This story has been updated with discussion at the ACIP meeting and to note that the panel’s planned votes were postponed until Friday. A panel that advises the federal government on vaccination

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