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The incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) appears to be decreasing and mortality improving among people with chronic hepatitis B treated with suppressive antiviral therapy, according to studies presented at the recent 2016 AASLD ...

People with hepatitis C who achieve sustained virological response to treatment had lower liver-related morbidity and mortality rates compared to people who were not successfully treated, according to research presented at the 2016 ...

Several cheap interventions can significantly boost engagement with the continuum of care for viral hepatitis, a systematic literature review and a series of meta-analyses published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases show. Programmes led by ...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) could be eliminated as a global health threat with a scale-up of vaccination coverage, enhanced efforts to prevent vertical (mother-to-child) transmission and expansion of testing and treatment, according to ...

Incidence of endstage liver disease (ESLD) among HIV-positive people with viral hepatitis changed little between 1996 and 2010, despite major improvements in HIV treatment and care, investigators from Canada and the United States ...

Treatment with statins decreases the risk of progression to liver cirrhosis in people with HIV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection, investigators from the United States report in AIDS. The protective effect of statins was ...

Many people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) virus infection have infrequent medical monitoring, according to US research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Analysis of the records of over 2000 ...

People with hepatitis C are at higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, suffering a stroke or developing cardiovascular problems than people with similar risk factors for heart disease who ...