Hepatitis—inflammation of the liver—affects millions of people worldwide each year. This potentially serious condition can stem from viral infections, alcohol consumption, toxins, medications, or ...

Hepatitis C affects millions of Americans, many of whom may not realize they are infected. With prompt diagnosis and treatment, however, it is highly curable—but left untreated, it can lead to serious ...

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Pharmacological treatment is recommended for patients with chronic HCV infection, advanced fibrosis, compensated cirrhosis, liver transplant, severe extrahepatic manifestations, HIV co-infection, or ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have officially classified the Hepatitis D virus (HDV) as carcinogenic to humans. This places HDV ...

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

The phone call no one wants to receive often starts the same way. Your favorite restaurant has been linked to a hepatitis A outbreak, or perhaps a close friend mentions they’ve been diagnosed with the ...

U.S. health officials said as many as 109 cases of a mysterious and severe liver disease in children are under investigation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out a new alert for ...

Neonatal hepatitis (NH) is inflammation of the liver during early infancy. In NH, bile does not flow properly from the liver to the intestines. Instead, it accumulates in the liver, causing ...

Asymptomatic disease and early progression. The progression of HCV infection to cirrhosis is often asymptomatic and clinically silent. In chronic hepatitis, the correlation of biochemical liver ...