More than 6,000 people a day are infected with viral hepatitis — and progress fighting the disease has stalled, a recently released World Health Organization report suggests. The analysis, released at ...

Hepatitis can be caused by a viral infection, alcohol consumption, or certain medications. Your symptoms will depend on whether you have hepatitis A, B, C, D, or E ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver (Photo: Shutterstock) Hepatitis is a liver ...

Hepatitis is a widespread infection across the globe, yet it’s often surrounded by misinformation and myths. Many people mistakenly believe that hepatitis can be transmitted through everyday ...

A global research effort led by the World Health Organization is ongoing. A new study points to prior COVID-19 infection as a possible culprit for the global wave of severe hepatitis cases among ...

U.S. health officials said Friday they were investigating 180 reported cases of unusual hepatitis in children in 36 states and territories dating from the past seven months. The number is an increase ...

Public health officials in the United States and the United Kingdom are investigating a number of unusual cases of serious hepatitis in young children, the cause or causes of which are currently ...

Health officials from around the world are trying to figure out why children are being stricken by acute cases of hepatitis - a disease of the liver. The World Health Organization reported on Saturday ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a health advisory to health care providers and public health officials recommending they test for adenovirus in children who have ...

This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the seventh installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...

Older cases of pediatric hepatitis have been reported, adding to the CDC's investigation of illness in otherwise healthy children. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health ...