Learn why the hepatitis B vaccine is recommended for newborns and how it protects infants from a potentially deadly liver disease.

Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, preventable disease.

The other Michigan health systems that plan to continue offering the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine are Corewell Health, Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care, Munson Healthcare and University of Michigan Health.

Under the direction of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health officials have changed guidance on hepatitis B vaccines, potentially affecting millions of California infants who are at risk of dying from liver cancer later in life if they contract the virus.

Despite new guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on giving the hepatitis B Vaccine to infants, Pennsylvania’s Department of Health, some hospitals and the American