World Hepatitis Day is observed each year on 28 July to raise awareness of viral hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver that causes severe liver disease and liver cancer. This year’s theme is ...

Hepatitis C is a serious condition that can greatly affect your liver and overall health. The culprit is a virus called hepatitis C virus (HCV), which typically gets into a person’s system through ...

As hepatitis B research progresses, achieving higher functional cure rates is becoming more feasible. It is vital that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vaccination against hepatitis B is a common recommendation, but what exactly is it preventing? HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his advisory group plan to meet this week to discuss and vote on ...

Liver damage often starts slowly, and early signs are easy to miss. The condition can occur when the liver is injured or ...

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

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 ...

A group of advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could reverse a long-standing recommendation that every ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends screening for exposure with HCV antibody (anti-HCV) and follow-up with HCV-RNA testing. About 70% to 86% of patients with positive results of anti-HCV ...