Dr. Baruch Blumberg, a federal scientist, identified the virus behind the infection in 1965. He won the Nobel Prize for the ...

Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention will scrutinize the childhood vaccine schedule and may start to upend it.

Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may vote this week to make a major change to the ...

Hepatitis B vaccines given at birth have essentially eliminated the disease in kids. A vote this week could upend that ...

The vaccine advisory committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to meet Dec. 4 and 5. On the ...

Mental health conditions are common among veterans and may play a larger role than previously recognized in raising liver cancer risk for those with hepatitis C.

Hundreds of people have been diagnosed with either HIV or hepatitis B since A&E departments across the Midlands started ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. It was the late 1980s and the ...

Hepatitis C is commonly known as the "silent" infection because people can live for years without showing signs of the disease while liver damage is occurring. Judge disqualifies top federal ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching an integrated care model to tackle hepatitis C, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a news release Monday. Through the Hepatitis ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Washington ranks among the top 10 states in the nation for deaths following Hepatitis C infection, according to data gathered by Emory University. Spokane, while below the state ...

Sexually transmitted diseases are trending up in Cape Girardeau County, according a biannual report published by the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center. Chlamydia rates are climbing higher in ...