Joint AASLD/IDSA practice recommendations reflect new data on prevention, treatment, and surveillance of chronic hepatitis B, ...

Hepatitis B is a serious liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which is a small DNA virus from the Hepadnaviridae family. If someone has this infection for a long time, it can lead to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As of 2019, the WHO estimates that nearly 300 million people worldwide are chronically infected with HBV, with ...

Whether hepatitis resolves depends on the type and whether a person receives treatment. Hepatitis A usually resolves without medications, and while sometimes hepatitis B and C may last only a few ...

By Nancy Lapid Feb 23 (Reuters) - Use of hepatitis B vaccines in U.S. newborns was declining well before the Centers for ...

Newly published data indicate a quiet shift in hospital nurseries that may signal a broader change in how Americans view ...

A new research study shows that hepatitis B vaccination rates among newborns in the U.S. declined by more than 10 percent from its peak in early 2023. The study, published online Tuesday in the ...

Read more about how a dive in HBV rates in infants in the USA has undone years of steady increase in vaccination uptake.

Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven't had to face in many years: how to protect newborns against hepatitis B.Last week, a federal ...

Administering Hepatitis B vaccinations to infants may reduce their future risk of developing liver cancer, according to a study published in the journal Gastroenterology. The researchers studied ...

Chandigarh, Haryana has decided to comprehensively strengthen surveillance, reporting and treatment monitoring of viral hepatitis under the National Viral Hepatitis Control Programme.

Hepatitis B viral load is the amount of hepatitis B virus (HBV) found in a person’s bloodstream. Hepatitis B is a viral infection that can pass from person to person through bodily fluids. It ...