The management of chronic hepatitis B (CHB ... risk factors for vertical transmission, and evidence-based data on antiviral use during pregnancy. They propose an algorithm to assess the need ...

The largest conference of HIV medical experts and scientists in India this year, the 16th National Conference of AIDS Society ...

Hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-positive women are twice as likely ... high endemicity where infection is commonly acquired early in life through vertical or early horizontal transmission.1 In the ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

For patients at high risk of hepatitis B reactivation, AGA recommends preventive antiviral medication. Reactivated HBV can lead to liver damage, hospitalization, and even death.

New recommendations address advances in immunosuppressive therapies and highlight antiviral prophylaxis for high-risk patients. Study: AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Prevention and ...

The NHS will automatically test patients for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C unless they opt out at almost 90 Accident and Emergency (A&E) units in England, the BBC can reveal. The government is ...

Sparked by a flurry of executive orders in the first week of taking power, and evolving at dizzying pace, the new US administration has taken a wrecking ball to health-related services and research ...

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 ...

GSK has revealed updated results from its phase 2b trial of its antisense drug for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections, which reveal a sharp decline in the proportion of patients with undetectable ...

Sharing injection supplies increases the risk of bloodborne infections such as HIV infection, hepatitis B virus infection, and hepatitis C virus infection. In addition, adulterants in drugs can ...