Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Acute HPV comes on quickly and resolves promptly. Chronic HBV is a long-term infection, lasting for at least 6 months. The ...

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 ...

Hepatitis B can pass from one person to another via blood and body fluids with the infection. In some cases, it may be present in saliva. Hepatitis B is a liver disease resulting from infection with ...

The hepatitis B vaccine protects against liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). This virus is highly contagious and can spread through exposure to blood, semen, and other bodily fluids ...

Update: The CDC's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to stop recommending the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine for babies whose mothers test negative for the virus. Read the latest here. Our ...

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 ...

On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine advisory panel voted to change the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine. The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization ...

University of California, San Francisco researchers have identified a crucial immune mechanism involving CD4+ T cells that ...

Objectives To investigate the real-world incidence of serious infections (SI), herpes zoster (HZ) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) ...