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A photo of the CDC's ACIP panel in a room. A television broadcast camera is seen recording the meeting in the center of the frame.

Vaccine Panel’s Hepatitis B Vote Signals Further Turbulence for Immunization Policy, Public Trust

By Céline Gounder December 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision to no longer recommend the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, preventable disease.

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RFK Jr. Wants To Delay the Hepatitis B Vaccine. Here’s What Parents Need To Know.

By Jackie Fortiér Updated December 5, 2025 Originally Published December 2, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A CDC panel is reconsidering the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Renewed doubt could lead to fewer kids getting vaccinated, leaving them vulnerable to an incurable, preventable virus that can be acquired by indirect contact with infected blood.

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In Hepatitis B Vaccine Debate, CDC Panel Sidesteps Key Exposure Risk

By Jackie Fortiér September 29, 2025 KFF Health News Original

At a recent meeting of a key vaccine advisory panel, members debated changes to the timing of hepatitis B vaccination, while largely ignoring the risk of early childhood transmission from day care or household contact. A few days later, President Donald Trump did the same.

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RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Expected To Recommend Delaying Hepatitis B Shot for Children

By Jackie Fortiér Updated September 19, 2025 Originally Published September 16, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A federal vaccine panel, recently reshaped by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is expected to vote on delaying the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Pediatricians warn that could open the door to a comeback for a disease virtually eradicated among U.S. children.

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Qué significa la decisión sobre la vacuna contra la hepatitis B para la gente

By Céline Gounder December 15, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Un comité de los Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades votó para poner fin a la recomendación universal de aplicar la vacuna contra la hepatitis B a los recién nacidos.

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In RFK Jr.’s Upside-Down World of Vaccines, Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot at Birth

By Arthur Allen December 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A session of a vaccine panel dominated by skeptics was chaotically at odds with past practices of the CDC, which HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has described as a “cesspool of corruption.” His crew voted to end a 34-year recommendation to vaccinate newborns against hepatitis B.

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Journalists Distill $50B Rural Health Fund and Newsmaking Diagnoses

August 2, 2025 KFF Health News Original

KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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Autoridades quieren retrasar la vacuna contra la hepatitis B. Lo que los padres deben saber

By Jackie Fortiér December 2, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Desde 1991, una dosis de la vacuna al nacer es hasta 90% efectiva para prevenir la infección transmitida por la madre si se administra en las primeras 24 horas de vida.

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$50B Rural Health ‘Slush Fund’ Faces Questions, Skepticism

By Sarah Jane Tribble July 21, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

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Rural Health Providers Could Be Collateral Damage From $100K Trump Visa Fee

By Arielle Zionts and Phillip Reese December 9, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Dozens of health care organizations have asked the Trump administration to shield the doctors, nurses, and techs they need to fill shortages from the president’s new $100,000 visa fee for skilled foreign workers. So far, there’s no sign of a reprieve.

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Feds Promised ‘Radical Transparency’ but Withhold $50B Rural Fund Details

By Sarah Jane Tribble December 5, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.

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Rural Health Providers Hit by $100K Trump Visa Fee

By Arielle Zionts December 12, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.

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Mercury in Your Hot Dog? Vaccine Skeptics Face Their Limits at Crucial CDC Meeting

By Arthur Allen and Renuka Rayasam September 19, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on vaccines pitted scientific expertise against vaccine skepticism. An often confusing debate ended with critics of the current vaccine schedule tabling a vote to remove one of its cornerstones.

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Former CDC Director Susan Monarez speaks inside a Senate hearing room.

Watch: Fired CDC Chief Says RFK Jr. Demanded She Roll Back Vaccine Policies Without Evidence

By Arthur Allen and Hannah Norman September 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Susan Monarez and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief medical officer Debra Houry described turmoil in an agency dominated by anti-vaccine political officials nominated by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Nueva tarifa de $100.000 por visa impuesta por Trump afecta a trabajadores de salud rurales

By Arielle Zionts and Phillip Reese December 13, 2025 KFF Health News Original

El sistema de salud en Estados Unidos depende del personal nacido en el extranjero para cubrir plazas como médicos, enfermeros, técnicos y otros profesionales, especialmente en zonas rurales.

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UnitedHealth Wins Ruling Over $2B in Alleged Medicare Advantage Overpayments

By Fred Schulte March 4, 2025 KFF Health News Original

A special master found the Justice Department failed to prove wrongdoing by the giant health insurer.

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Concerns Over Fairness, Access Rise as States Compete for Slice of $50B Rural Health Fund

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Arielle Zionts November 7, 2025 KFF Health News Original

Amid public forums and local cries for help, states are also talking with large health systems, technology companies, and others amid intensifying competition for shares of a $50 billion fund to improve rural health.

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Republicans Left Tribes Out of Their $50B Rural Fund. Now It’s Up to States To Share.

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez December 4, 2025 KFF Health News Original

The Trump administration has championed its Rural Health Transformation Program as an investment in American families who have been left behind. But Native American tribes, whose communities have a significant presence in rural America and have some of the greatest health needs, are ineligible to apply directly for funding.

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States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble

By Sarah Jane Tribble October 17, 2025 KFF Health News Original

States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but it’s not just hospitals vying for the money. Tech startups and policy demands are raising the stakes as Medicaid cuts loom.

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Calif. Ballot Measure Targets Drug Discount Program Spending

By Angela Hart October 8, 2024 KFF Health News Original

Californians in November will weigh in on a ballot initiative to increase scrutiny over the use of health-care dollars — particularly money from a federal drug discount program — meant to support patient care largely for low-income or indigent people. The revenue is sometimes used to address housing instability and homelessness among vulnerable patient populations. Voters […]

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