Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY FEBRAURY 2 File photo dated 25/05/18 of a pregnant woman holding her stomach. Hepatitis B transmission ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) today announced that vertical transmission of hepatitis B had been eliminated in England. The Agency said that the country had "succeeded in meeting the new World ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Monday that Namibia has eliminated vertical mother-to-child transmission of viral HIV and Hepatitis B, the first country in Africa and the only ...

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have conducted a large-scale analysis that sheds light on the critical steps needed to combat the vertical transmission of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) in ...

Hepatitis B poses health risks for pregnant people and their babies. These include virus transmission from parent to newborn, preterm labor, and hepatitis B complications in pregnant people. Testing ...

Hepatitis B is not a particularly common condition in the United States. Data from 2021 estimates that between 880,000 and 1.89 million individuals are living with chronic hepatitis B in the U.S. This ...

“I feel very blessed,” says Alice Chan. Chan was born and raised in Hong Kong and emigrated to the United States in 1977. In 1983, in California, she became pregnant with her first child. Knowing how ...

A study just published on Eurosurveillance has found evidence of substantial lifetime exposure to hepatitis B and C viruses in Ukraine in a 2021 nationwide, representative sample of the population, ...