“The American people have benefited from the committee’s well-informed, rigorous discussion about the appropriateness of a vaccination in the first few hours of life,” said Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services and CDC Acting Director Jim O’Neill.

Conflicting recommendations leaves parents with more questions than answers when it comes to vaccines for their newborn children.

Americans’ confidence in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has plummeted, according to a 2025 National Foundation for Infectious Diseases survey, and many young people are

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed a vote until Friday on whether to change a longstanding recommendation that newborns should receive the hepatitis B vaccine. Dr. Peter Chin-Hong,

President Donald Trump publicly backed a vaccine advisory panel's decision to reverse decades of longstanding medical guidance.

After a contentious discussion, the vaccine advisory group pushed the vote to Friday to give members time to study the language of proposed changes longstanding policy on the shots.

"There are some signs that another big norovirus season is ahead of us," Emory University Professor Ben Lopman told Newsweek.

The outbreak blamed on "gym exposure" is relatively small, but it has helped push cases tied to the Legionella bacteria to a 10-year high in Florida.

In a controversial move, the vaccine advisory group reversed a recommendations for universal immunizing of newborns intended to protect them from a virus that attacks the liver.

Shingles and chicken pox are caused by the same virus, herpes zoster. After a chicken pox infection, the virus hides in some nerve cells, ready to reactivate if the immune system weakens, which can happen with age. About half of all shingles cases are in adults 60 and older, according to the National Institute on Aging.