Exploring Unmet Needs In Chronic Hepatitis B: Understanding The Disease, Its Impact And The Potential Of Functional Cure
While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the body's defences are unable to ...
Hepatitis B: A new rapid diagnostic test to halt mother-to-child transmission
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Kumamoto University in Japan, have assessed a new rapid ...
Antiviral besifovir may be a safer alternative for long-term hepatitis B treatment
Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and long-term hepatitis B infections that last longer ...
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What is hepatitis B, the virus at the centre of the recent hospital infection alert?
News that a health worker at a Sydney hospital’s birth unit was infectious with hepatitis B for more than a decade has led to a health alert for mothers and babies. The staff member worked at Nepean ...
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Hundreds of mums who gave birth at the Nepean Hospital Birth Unit at risk of hepatitis B
A hepatitis B health alert has been issued to hundreds of mums and children who were admitted to the Nepean Hospital Birth Unit between 2013 and 2024. A health alert was issued after NSW Health ...