Joint AASLD/IDSA practice recommendations reflect new data on prevention, treatment, and surveillance of chronic hepatitis B, ...

By Nancy Lapid Feb 23 (Reuters) - Use of hepatitis B vaccines in U.S. newborns was declining well before the Centers for ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes hepatitis B. Worldwide, hepatitis B is thought to be the second deadliest infection; it's estimated that about five percent of the global population have the disease.

A new research study shows that hepatitis B vaccination rates among newborns in the U.S. declined by more than 10 percent ...

Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a long-term infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the ...

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At CROI 2026, experts warned that missing HBV screening risks reactivation during HIV therapy switches.

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, researchers have identified a vulnerability that opens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About 80% of parents currently choose to follow CDC guidelines to vaccinate their babies for hepatitis B at birth.