The study comes months after the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted in December 2025 to replace its ...

The sneaky virus poses serious health threats if it goes on to become a chronic disease. Clinical trial results suggest a new drug may cure 1 in 5 of those cases.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is inflammation of the liver. Largely can be asymptomatic or can present with nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and weakness or specific symptoms such ...

A first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B is letting some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver ...