US panel ends universal hepatitis B shot for newborns

WASHINGTON, D.C.: U.S. vaccine advisers have voted to overturn more than three decades of standard practice by ending the recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B shot at birth, a sweeping change that aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s push to remake federal vaccine policy and has alarmed disease experts.

The panel said the shot should now be given at birth only to infants whose m