Hepatitis C is a tiny virus with a significant impact. It's a small RNA virus that spreads through the blood and infects the liver. Even though today's medicines can cure it, hepatitis C remains a ...

A rapid, user-friendly, highly accurate sensitive molecular test has been developed for diagnosing hepatitis C virus (HCV).

Background Withdrawal of prolonged nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) treatment results in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss in some subjects with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), potentially revealing ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Dec. 16 that it adopted individual-based decision-making for parents deciding whether to give the hepatitis B vaccine, including the birth dose ...

The CDC has officially updated its immunization schedule to reflect its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ ...

The CDC revises newborn hepatitis B vaccine guidelines: parents of low-risk babies now decide with doctors. Read more here.

Clinicians and epidemiologists warn the decision could unravel decades of progress and expose newborns to a deadly, ...

Vaccine Response against Hepatitis B Virus in Patients with Chronic Kidney Failure Not on Dialysis and Factors Associated ...

Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven't had to face in ...

Public health experts are concerned that delaying hepatitis B vaccinations for newborns could increase rates of the ...

The new guidance would do away with a decades-old universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B that helped cut infections by 99 percent in the U.S.

A panel of advisors to the CDC has voted to change the current recommendation that all newborns should start to receive the three-shot hepatitis b vaccine shortly after birth.