Jody Baron and Gabi Fragiadakis discover why some people with chronic Hepatitis B are cured after they're taken off of ...

Fifteen years ago, doctors in Europe noticed a remarkable thing happening in people with chronic hepatitis B infections. When ...

Chronic hepatitis B is incurable and can lead to liver failure and death. Because not all pregnant women get the recommended hepatitis B screening, some newborns are exposed to the disease, putting ...

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University of California, San Francisco researchers have identified a crucial immune mechanism involving CD4+ T cells that ...

Hepatitis is a global health issue, affecting millions of lives worldwide. It medically denotes liver inflammation which is a diagnostic characteristic caused by various conditions such as infections ...

On Dec. 4, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisors voted 8-3 to change their recommendations on vaccinating infants for hepatitis B. The old guidance, which had ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Kumamoto University in Japan, have assessed a new rapid diagnostic test to identify pregnant women at elevated risk of transmitting ...

In the quiet corners of our hospital wards and bustling OPDs, a silent yet deadly disease continues to claim thousands of lives every year. Viral hepatitis remains one of India’s biggest but least ...

India is among the top ten countries that accounted for 69 per cent of global deaths due to hepatitis B (HBV) in 2024, according to a latest WHO repo ...