[caption id="attachment_50173" align="alignright" width="300"] Elisa Hampton, MD[/caption] Elisa Hampton, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics, spoke with The New York Times about the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Although most adults who get hepatitis B will recover, young children are much more likely to develop chronic illness from the infection. Infants receive the vaccine in a series of three doses, with the first dose administered on the day they are born. Dr. Ham...
