Worldwide, seven drugs have been registered for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B. These include two interferons (conventional interferon and peginterferon alfa-2a) and five oral NAs (lamivudine, ...

Working out of a tribal-owned hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, liver specialist Brian McMahon has spent decades treating the ...

Despite untreated HBV being linked to earlier mortality, higher all-cause and liver-related death, and a 10% to 25% lifetime risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), only 29% of qualifying ...

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 ...

A recall update has been published regarding a hepatitis B medication. The news comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convenes to vote on updated guidelines for childhood ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - The chief executive of Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Tuesday said the potential demand for hepatitis B treatments in the United States and Europe is being underestimated, and that ...

With a $416,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), SLU scientists will continue work to cure hepatitis B, building on significant findings published in two recent papers. John Tavis, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the Integrated drug resistance action framework for HIV, hepatitis B and C ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...

The prescribed dosage for Engerix-B (hepatitis B vaccine [recombinant]) may vary depending on your individual treatment plan. Other factors, including your medical history, may affect your dosage of ...