It is also the eighth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious human disease. You may read the others on Forbes or www.williamhaseltine.com.

Patients with HIV and hepatitis B coinfection are at an increased risk for hepatitis D. Patients with hepatitis D have an increased risk for liver-related complications and mortality. Patients ...

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript. Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection occurs in individuals positive for the HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). HDV is present ...

Infection with hepatitis D viruses causes severe inflammation of the liver. An MHH team has now identified a marker on natural killer cells that is influenced by the anti-inflammatory ...

Gilead Sciences has been knocked back in its quest to bring the first drug therapy for hepatitis D virus (HDV) to the US market, after the FDA rejected its marketing application. News of the ...

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.

Recent data report that HDV IgM levels correlate with histological inflammatory activity, and support the use of quantitative anti-HDV IgM as an indicator of disease activity in hepatitis D.