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By Mrinalika Roy and Michael ErmanDec 5 (Reuters) – Vaccine makers expressed concern on Friday’s decision by a U.S. advisory panel to scrap its long-standing recommendation that all infants receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a shift that public health experts fear will undermine decades of public health advances.Merck, whose Recombivax HB has been a staple of the U.S. childhood immunization program, said it was “deeply concerned” by the decision of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), warning it “puts infants at unnecessary risk of chronic infection, liver cancer and even death.”The company said the universal birth…
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. Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth — as the CDC has advised for more than 30 years — the panel voted to recommend delaying it until a child is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative for the virus.The panel voted, in a 8-2 decision, to recommend individual decision-making in consultation with a health care provider to determine when or if to give…
If Amazon Web Services’ annual re:Invent tech conference proves anything, it’s that the cloud infrastructure player is going all in on AI. AWS made dozens of announcements, from new AI agents and updated large language models, to products with LLM and agent-building capabilities. AI for enterprise was everywhere. But are its customers just as eager? AWS CEO Matt Garman acknowledged during his keynote that enterprises haven’t seen a return on AI investment yet. He thinks that’s about to change — and fast. “I believe that the advent of AI agents has brought us to an inflection point in AI’s trajectory,”…
The committee advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy voted on Dec. 5, 2025, to stop recommending that all newborns be routinely vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus – undoing a 34-year prevention strategy that has nearly eliminated early childhood hepatitis B infections in the United States.Before the U.S. began vaccinating all infants at birth with the hepatitis B vaccine in 1991, around 18,000 children every year contracted the virus before their 10th birthday – about half of them at birth. About 90% of that subset developed a chronic infection.In the U.S., 1 in 4 children…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee voted 8-3 on Friday to remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to make vaccine recommendations based on the mother’s testing status.The recommendations state that if a mother tests negative for hepatitis B, parents should decide, with the guidance of their health care provider, whether the shot is right for their newborn — referred to as “individual-based decision-making,” according to a document with the ACIP voting language.CDC vaccine advisory committee meets to discuss hepatitis B shot, childhood immunization scheduleThe vote…
NEW YORK, Dec 5 (Reuters) – A group of vaccine advisers to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday voted to remove the broad recommendation that all newborns in the U.S. receive a hepatitis B vaccine, in one of the most sweeping changes to vaccine policy under Kennedy’s leadership so far. Here are some reactions to the decision:NOEL BREWER, FORMER ACIP MEMBER AND PROFESSOR IN PUBLIC HEALTH AT UNC: “ACIP continues to take away parents’ choices and make it harder to protect their children through vaccination. The vote to eliminate universal hepatitis B vaccination will increase harm to…
The New York Times filed suit Friday against AI search startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, its second lawsuit against an AI company. The Times joins several media outlets suing Perplexity, including the Chicago Tribune, which also filed suit this week. The Times’s suit claims that “Perplexity provides commercial products to its own users that substitute” for the outlet, “without permission or remuneration.” The lawsuit – filed even as several publishers, including The Times, negotiate deals with AI firms – is part of the same, ongoing years-long strategy. Recognizing the AI tide cannot be stopped, publishers use lawsuits as leverage in…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s influential vaccine advisory panel has voted to no longer universally recommend the first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns within 24 hours of birth, a sweeping overhaul of vaccine policy.On Friday, Dec. 5, one day after tabling the vote during a contentious meeting, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended “individual-based decision making” for parents of babies born to mothers who test negative for hepatitis B. For parents who decline the birth dose, the panel recommended the first shot be delayed to “no earlier than two months of age.”Committee…
Meta has signed commercial AI data agreements with news publishers to offer real-time global, entertainment, and breaking news on Meta AI, its AI chatbot. Now, when users ask Meta AI news-related questions, it will surface information and links that draw from different content sources to help users discover timely and relevant content, the company announced on Friday. These responses will also include links to articles, so users can visit publishers’ websites to learn more. The company says this will allow its partners to reach new audiences. Meta is partnering with CNN, Fox News, Fox Sports, Le Monde Group, the People…