{"id":6618,"date":"2026-05-07T10:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:38:48","slug":"hepatitis-b-vaccination-jama-publication-gains-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/2026\/05\/07\/hepatitis-b-vaccination-jama-publication-gains-traction\/","title":{"rendered":"Hepatitis B Vaccination JAMA Publication Gains Traction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four members of BMC&#8217;s ID section &#8211; Maggie Lind, PhD; Roshni Singh, MD; Ben Linas, MD; and Rachel Epstein, MD &#8211; were recently published in JAMA for their research highlighting how removing Hepatitis B vaccination at birth impacts US newborns. Since its release at the end of April, there has been significant news coverage as findings suggest restricted guidelines will ultimately increase infection rates and healthcare costs. Find the respective articles here: <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/04\/27\/delaying-hepatitis-b-shot-newborns-infections\/\">Washington Post<\/a><\/span><span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/04\/27\/jama-studies-hepatitis-b-vaccination-newborns\/\">Stat News<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gavi.org\/vaccineswork\/hepatitis-b-vaccine-birth-best-protects-newborns-new-studies-find\">Gavi<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"meta-article-title \"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four members of BMC&#8217;s ID section &#8211; Maggie Lind, PhD; Roshni Singh, MD; Ben Linas, MD; and Rachel Epstein, MD &#8211; were recently published in JAMA for their research highlighting how removing Hepatitis B vaccination at birth impacts US newborns. Since its release at the end of April, there has been significant news coverage as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24885,"featured_media":6619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6618\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}