Most Americans have never thought much about hepatitis B, and that’s precisely because the vaccine works so well.

Alaska public health officials continue to recommend the Hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, citing high rates of chronic ...

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (“ACIP”) develops recommendations for how vaccinations are used to control ...

Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the ...

Lifestyle-related liver diseases, linked to obesity and alcohol consumption, are increasing, says Professor Pierce Chow from ...

Instead of recommending the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now officially advises women who test negative for the virus to consult health care ...

Dec 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday ended a long-standing recommendation that all U.S. newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to ...

When Dr. Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That's when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. "I ...

Northwestern scientists have created the fastest-ever hepatitis C diagnostic, delivering accurate results in only 15 minutes. The test uses the DASH rapid PCR system, originally developed for COVID, ...

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 ...