is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It typically causes symptoms like stomach pain, dark urine, fatigue, fever, jaundice (yellowing of the skin and eyes), diarrhea ...

How You Can Get It: Hepatitis B is spread like HIV: through contact with infected blood or bodily fluids. You can contract the virus through vaginal, oral, or anal sex. Symptoms: Poor appetite ...

HBsAg is the hallmark of HBV infection and is the first serological marker to appear in acute hepatitis B. Most patients recovering from acute hepatitis B clear HBsAg within 4-6 months after onset ...

Savage resident Edwin Tan spent his summer carrying a message across the triathlon finish line. Tan, 29, lives with chronic hepatitis B. He said there isn’t a lot of public ...

The majority of adults with hepatitis B have no symptoms, and infection is often only diagnosed by routine blood tests and monitoring the health of the liver. Among people living with HIV, routine ...

The viral illness kills more people in the city than HIV, but antiviral medications may be helping cut its transmission.

Background To determine clinical-pathologic variables in patients with a new diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and underlying hepatitis B vs. C infection. Methods Patients presenting to ...