Autoimmune hepatitis quietly damages the liver for years before symptoms appear; specialists in Kenya warn of late diagnoses and urge early medical checks. [File, Standard] When people think about ...

Federal vaccine advisers appointed by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are set to review ...

Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered how a viral infection causes autoimmune disease, disproving a long-standing theory and opening a promising new approach to ...

The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B ...

The patient is a 48-year-old white woman who is infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1a; she also has mild associated cryoglobulinemia. She was treated in 1993 with interferon and after 5 ...

AIH with AITD, T1DM, UC, Crohn disease, and celiac disease appear to be significant. However, associations between AIH and PSC/PBC, RA, SLE, SS, and vitiligo are not well-supported. Diagnostic ...

Budesonide is a synthetic steroid with a 15-fold higher affinity for glucocorticoid receptors. It is an alternative to prednisolone. Due to its high first-pass metabolism in the liver, budesonide ...

When you hear about hepatitis A, you may think of tainted food and water, but this liver infection can also be spread from person to person. The American Liver Foundation estimates that 115,900 new ...

When most people think about liver disease, they usually imagine issues caused by drinking too much alcohol or infections like hepatitis B or C. What they don’t often realise is that there is another ...