‘Complicating the Decision-Making’ for the Universal Birth Dose of the Hepatitis B Vaccine

Evolving understandings: A physician's perspective on hepatitis B – Jackson Advocate

By Selika Sweet, MD JA Guest Writer There is growing discussion today about hepatitis B and the role of vaccination in preventing infection. My perspective is both deeply personal and profoundly professional, shaped by years of caring for individuals at heightened risk. These experiences have shaped how I understand hepatitis B – and reinforced the importance of thoughtful, evidence-based preventive medicine as a foundation of public health. Tra…

US to end recommendations for newborns’ hepatitis B jabs - Juta MedicalBrief

A federal vaccine committee in the US has voted to end a decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunised at birth against hepatitis B, the highly infectious virus that can cause severe liver damage, reports The New York Times. However, the divisiveness and dysfunction of the committee in making the decision has raised questions about the reliability of the advisory process and left at least one critic “very concerned about the future”…

‘Complicating the Decision-Making’ for the Universal Birth Dose of the Hepatitis B Vaccine

Robert Hopkins, Jr, MD, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID), discusses the changes around the new vaccine recommendations and what potential serious consequences may be seen as a result.