All the news Showing 10 of 368 articles from: Hepatitis BGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Major hep B players Gilead and Vir join forces to find a cure Fierce Biotech / 18 January 2021 2.5 million people in Africa need urgent hepatitis B treatment Keith Alcorn / 09 December 2020 Around 2.5 million people with hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa already have cirrhosis and need immediate antiviral treatment, a systematic review of published studies reports this month in the journal Liver International. Approximately ... Few countries will meet 2020 target for reducing viral hepatitis deaths Keith Alcorn / 24 November 2020 Around 1.1 million deaths were caused by viral hepatitis worldwide in 2019 and deaths due to hepatitis C are still rising despite the availability of direct-acting antiviral treatment, according to analyses of ... Some hepatitis B patients can safely stop antivirals Liz Highleyman / 24 November 2020 Many people who take nucleoside/nucleotide antivirals for chronic hepatitis B can safely discontinue treatment, although this usually does not lead to a cure, researchers reported last week at the AASLD virtual Liver Meeting. Nucleoside/nucleotide analogues such ... Tenofovir alafenamide prevents mother-to-child hepatitis B virus transmission Liz Highleyman / 20 November 2020 Tenofovir alafenamide (TAF; Vemlidy) is highly effective at preventing transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) from mothers with a high viral load to their infants, according to a pair of studies presented ... NASVAC therapeutic vaccine may lead to functional cure of hepatitis B Liz Highleyman / 17 November 2020 NASVAC, an experimental therapeutic vaccine that targets two different hepatitis B virus (HBV) antigens, led to a reduction in hepatitis B surface antigen levels and several study participants achieved a functional cure after ... New tool to predict outcomes in cirrhosis of the liver Baylor College of Medicine / 11 November 2020 Fatty liver disease common in people living with HIV and hepatitis B Keith Alcorn / 30 September 2020 Around one in three people with HIV and hepatitis B had fatty liver disease and one in ten had liver damage, US researchers from the Hepatitis B Research Network report in Clinical ... HCV-Related Liver Cancer Incidence Dropped in US Cohort Medscape / 28 September 2020 EASL recommendations on treatment of Hepatitis C 2020 EASL / 28 September 2020 ← Prev1...23456...37Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Transmission and prevention Diagnosis and monitoring Disease course and symptoms Treatment HIV and HBV HCV and HBV Hepatitis delta Living with HBV Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive