Learn about hepatitis C, how it spreads, possible symptoms, and important steps to protect yourself and others from this ...

There are five kinds of hepatitis. Each has different causes, with one commonality: Hepatitis causes your liver to get inflamed. Hepatitis disease can also sometimes be spread through sexual contact.

Catching HBV early can make a world of difference. Medical professionals typically use blood tests that check for signs of ...

While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the body's defences are unable to ...

People fully vaccinated against hepatitis B who are not immunocompromised can expect sustained immunity throughout their ...

When you hear about hepatitis A, you may think of tainted food and water, but this liver infection can also be spread from person to person. The American Liver Foundation estimates that 115,900 new ...

The hepatitis B vaccine is one of the very first vaccines your baby will get before she leaves the hospital. This vaccine protects her from a dangerous (but preventable!) liver infection and is ...

Hepatitis C is a blood-borne virus so it comes from blood to blood contact. So blood transfusions would be the first and most obvious way. The blood supply has been cleared of hepatitis C pretty ...

On March 12, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo ordered the emergency restriction of Voepel's medical license. Voepel's office can still practice medicine but can not perform procedures that ...

Use the tweezers to pull out a segment of DNA from the hepatitis B virus. A subunit vaccine makes use of just a small portion of a pathogen. For a virus, the vaccine can contain just a piece of ...