The hepatitis B vaccine is one of the very first vaccines your baby will get before she leaves the hospital. This vaccine protects her from a dangerous (but preventable!) liver infection and is ...

Health care workers are at higher risk of hepatitis B infection due to occupational exposure to blood and body fluids.

Use the tweezers to pull out a segment of DNA from the hepatitis B virus. A subunit vaccine makes use of just a small portion of a pathogen. For a virus, the vaccine can contain just a piece of ...

Hepatitis B doesn't only affect adults. Babies can get it from their mothers at birth, as well as from others who are infected, and the consequences can be long-lasting. "The hepatitis B vaccine is ...