The viral illness kills more people in the city than HIV, but antiviral medications may be helping cut its transmission.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to brelovitug (BJT-778) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis delta (CHD).

Infection with hepatitis D viruses causes severe inflammation of the liver. An MHH team has now identified a marker on natural killer cells that is influenced by the anti-inflammatory effectiveness of ...

Globally, liver cancer and head and neck cancers are more prevalent in Singapore and Asia. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Existing treatment criteria for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are mainly based on data from observational studies, such as the REVEAL study from Taiwan, which was initiated in the early ...

What our study showed was that during a chronic hepatitis C infection, antibodies on the virus surface form an antibody cluster that persistently stimulates the B cells to mutate," explains lead ...

Viral hepatitis is a major danger to public health. According to WHO’s 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, viral hepatitis deaths ...

A person's risk for contracting hepatitis C from sex is increased if they have multiple partners, engage in anal sex, and/or have a sexually transmitted infection. Chronic hepatitis means that liver ...

Researchers have uncovered how chronic hepatitis C infection leads to autoimmune disease, which opens new paths for treatments Scientists at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have ...

Subjects—Two hundred volunteer blood donors, 179 patients with chronic hepatitis C, 111 with chronic hepatitis B, 104 with alcoholic liver disease, 136 with hepatocellular carcinoma, and 24 with ...

Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) seroclearance is recommended as the ideal endpoint for nucleos(t)ide analog (NA) treatments. Functional cure of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is defined as having ...