Researchers say if their results are confirmed through further study they are optimistic the approach could be used to treat chronic infections for the first time.

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...

With several drugs in use that inhibit the hepatitis B virus polymerases (nucleos(t)ide analogues (or NUCs)), some argue that new direct-acting antiviral drugs, and new NUCs in particular ...

With an ever increasing number of patients being treated with IVIg for a wide array of immune-mediated disease, it is important that passive antibody transfer is considered when unexpected ...

New Delhi: Pharmaceutical major Dr Reddy's has got approval from the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) functional under the Central Drug Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) to manufacture and market ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-specific T cells are exhausted and impaired in patients with chronic HBV infection ... specific T cell function were analysed as previously described (for antibodies see online ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to brelovitug (BJT-778) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis delta (CHD). Brelovitug is a fully human ...

Estimates suggest that about 240 million people around the world have chronic hepatitis B. Up to 1.89 million people in the United States have a chronic HBV infection. Adults typically receive the ...

It should include a "triple" panel of HBsAg, antibodies to HBV surface Ag ... Certain groups with chronic hepatitis B or prior exposure to hepatitis B are at increased risk of HBVr, particularly ...

This research aimed to examine the association between hepatitis B virus (HBV) covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) and liver inflammation in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection patients. Methods: ...