Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. It’s considered acute until it lasts six months, at which point it’s considered chronic. Complications that can develop from chronic hepatitis include a ...

A landmark inquiry investigating the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS is set to conclude on Monday. Between the 1970s and early 1990s, patients were given contaminated blood and ...

Viral hepatitis types A, B, C, D and E can cause infection and subsequent liver inflammation. [iStockphoto] Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, a vital organ ...

Transmission electron micrograph of hepatitis B virus cores (green) Sloppy clinical practices have caused 33 outbreaks of hepatitis B or hepatitis C infection in the past decade, the CDC reports after ...

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research in Cancer (WHO-IARC) has now declared hepatitis D, a little-known but deadly virus, carcinogenic, with the hope that it will lead to ...

Hepatitis B, once rampant in Indigenous villages, has been brought under control in the state, but a CDC advisory committee ...

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose ...

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee voted Dec. 5 to stop recommending all newborns get the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, a ...

"Most hospitals and providers will still offer the vaccine to newborns, as it is recommended by the AAP, and has a strong ...