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More Americans refusing vitamin K shots for newborns: Study
- ( The Hill ) – More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.  The study found that from January 2017 to December 2024, 3.92 percent of the more than 5 million newborns in a U.S.-based electronic database did not receive a vitamin K shot. The share of newborns who did not receive the shot rose from 2.92 ...

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Opinion | The CDC's hepatitis rollback gambles with newborn lives
- Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is associate professor of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, vice chair of primary care innovation & transformation at Boston Medical Center, and communications fellow at Primary Care Collaborative. As a family medicine physician, I have the privilege of caring for patients from the earliest days of pregnancy contemplation through pregnancy ...

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