A clinical trial led by Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has found that point-of-care testing for hepatitis B DNA is as effective as traditional laboratory testing, paving the way for faster diagnosis ...

Many medical organizations and frontline health care providers are grappling with a challenge they haven’t had to face in many years: how to protect newborns against hepatitis B. Last week, a federal ...

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 ...

Jody Baron and Gabi Fragiadakis discover why some people with chronic Hepatitis B are cured after they're taken off of ...

Fifteen years ago, doctors in Europe noticed a remarkable thing happening in people with chronic hepatitis B infections. When patients went off their medications, the virus started to come back—and ...