Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How to achieve a functional cure for chronic hepatitis B

More than half of people with chronic hepatitis B have a form of the disease in which the immune system almost never achieves sustained control, despite many years of treatment. According to current knowledge, those affected ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

CDC updates recommendations for hepatitis B virus screening

Recommendations have been updated for screening and testing for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, according to research published in the March 10 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Making hepatitis C care easier when treatment seems impossible

A health care team at Oregon Health & Science University is trying a different approach to caring for patients who have, or are at risk for, hepatitis C, helping overcome barriers that can otherwise make receiving testing ...

Medical research

How hepatitis E viruses enter cells

Although hepatitis E is a common disease, little is known about the life cycle of the virus. Initial findings on how it manages to infect cells are reported by a team from Molecular and Medical Virology at Ruhr University ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New standards to quantify hepatitis B virus reservoirs in liver cells

Approximately 300 million people are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which can cause liver cirrhosis or cancer. Consequently, there is an urgent need for the development of HBV curative therapies. Due ...

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