Project B, the planned international women’s basketball league scheduled to begin competition next year, has added a significant new name: the Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham. A former Missouri ...

Update: The CDC's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for babies whose mothers test negative for the virus. Read the latest here. Our ...

The WNBA CBA negotiations just got even more interesting. That's because WNBA Player's Association President Nneka Ogwumike has become the first known player to sign with Project B, a new women's ...

Former WNBA MVP Nneka Ogwumike is the first player to join Project B, a new women's basketball startup league. Project B will offer players salaries larger than the WNBA and an equity stake in the ...

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Alyssa Thomas is the second major signing for the new Project B women's basketball league that will play in the WNBA offseason. Thomas joins Nneka Ogwumike as veteran WNBA All-Stars to sign with the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. Instead of a ...

A group of independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting this week, and a key item on the agenda is the hepatitis B vaccine. After presentations about ...

For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has spent decades treating the long shadow of hepatitis B. Before a vaccine became available in the 1980s, ...