Over 12 million people worldwide suffer from a chronic infection with the hepatitis D virus. This most severe viral liver disease is associated with a high risk of dying from liver cirrhosis and liver ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) released landmark Consolidated guidance and implementation handbook on hepatitis B and C, to support countries to expand prevention, testing, treatment, ...

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 is a serious liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which is a small DNA virus from the Hepadnaviridae family. If someone has this infection for a long time, it can lead to ...

As we mark World Hepatitis Day, WHO calls on governments and partners to urgently accelerate efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat and reduce liver cancer deaths. Every 30 ...

Transmission electron micrograph showing hepatitis B virus particles (colored orange). The Johns Hopkins Medicine-led ...

Hepatitis B is one of the most widespread viral infections in the world, with hundreds of millions of people living with it today. Caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), this condition primarily ...

World Hepatitis Day 2025 and its theme, “Hepatitis: Let’s Break It Down,” emphasize the urgent need to remove barriers to prevention, testing, and treatment to reduce liver cancer and eliminate ...

A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday morning to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on ...

On Dec. 4, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine advisors voted 8-3 to change their recommendations on vaccinating infants for hepatitis B. The old guidance, which had ...

We know the virus is most commonly passed from mother to child at birth or through contact with infected blood and bodily fluids, 5 with infants facing the highest risk of lifelong chronic infection ...

A key federal vaccine advisory panel whose members were recently replaced by Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to vote to recommend delaying ...