Results revealed today at The International Liver Congress™ 2015 demonstrate current treatment and prevention programmes need to be scaled up in order to make elimination of hepatitis B virus (HBV) ...

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Hepatitis B can spread relatively easily through contact with the blood or body fluids of someone who has the virus, especially in certain high risk situations. Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused ...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Kumamoto University in Japan, have assessed a new rapid diagnostic test to identify pregnant women at elevated risk of transmitting ...

Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is the primary route of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission in China, with a chronic infection rate of approximately 90% when infection occurs during the perinatal ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Molecular evidence indicates that father-to-child transmission is an "important route" of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in Japan, Japanese researchers warn in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday that President Trump’s assertions about ...

Two studies have independently identified quantitative hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) as a marker to identify pregnant women with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection whose infants are at ...

Today HHS released updates to the 1994 guidelines on preventing the unexpected transmission of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV. 1. A recommendation for hepatitis B and C scans for donors in addition ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC now recommends shared decision-making for the birth dose of the HBV vaccine for infants whose mothers ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee appears set to amend the childhood immunization schedule, including potentially changing recommendations on a shot given to ...