In response to several city councilor motions, City Solicitor Corey Williams presented an ordinance to the body at its Nov.

Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party Steve Kerrigan is calling on the three Republican gubernatorial candidates to denounce a move by the HHS to end a longtime recommendation to provide ...

The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced that they are investing $25 million to support the behavioral health workforce ...

Adm. Rachel Levine — a pioneering public health leader and the highest-ranking openly transgender federal official — is at ...

An influential panel of US vaccine advisers voted to revoke a longstanding recommendation that all babies receive hepatitis B ...

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) has moved to abandon recommending hepatitis B vaccines for newborns in a 8 ...

Massachusetts leaders, including Gov. Maura Healey, condemned a CDC panel's vote to end the routine newborn hepatitis B shot.

For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth.

The hepatitis B vaccine has long been recommended immediately after birth because the virus can be passed from an infected ...

"This is about the health and safety of our children. The hepatitis B vaccine is safe, effective and lifesaving," Gov. Maura ...