A newly restructured US vaccine advisory committee has postponed a decision on whether to delay the hepatitis B birth dose for babies born to mothers who test negative, after a two-day meeting which ended today.
The Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices (ACIP), whose members were replaced in June by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, said more analysis was needed; the long-standing US recommendation to give a first dose within 24 hours of birth, therefore, remains in force.
