The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine.

U.S. vaccine advisers' decision to scrap longstanding guidance on hepatitis B shots will expose more children to the harmful virus and may signal how other evidence-based vaccine policies can be under...

At today's meeting, among the three members to vote against the new recommendation was Dr H. Cody Meissner, one of the committee's two pediatricians, who warned as he voted that the committee was 'doi...