Chronic hepatitis B is substantially prevalent across the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA), affecting an ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Department of Health held its first public workshop Friday on the subject of changing state rules regarding vaccines. It’s part of an ongoing push led by the state’s ...

Without timely and appropriate treatment, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can progress to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), contributing significantly to global ...

The lesson from the past is simple. When we stop using vaccines that work, the diseases they prevent come back.

Accumulating data on the prevention, surveillance, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) has resulted in an updated practice guideline, jointly issued by the American Association for the Study of ...

The rate of hepatitis B virus vaccinations given to newborns fell by 10 percentage points between 2023 and 2025, to just over 73%, according to new research published in JAMA. After the COVID pandemic ...

Feb 23 (Reuters) - Use of hepatitis B vaccines in U.S. newborns was declining well before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scrapped a longstanding broad recommendation for the shots in ...

Hepatitis B vaccination rates among U.S. newborns have fallen by more than 10 percentage points over the past 2 years. Those rates climbed steadily for 6 years, peaking at 83.5% in February 2023 ...

LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - GSK (GSK.L), opens new tab will use promising results from two studies of its experimental chronic hepatitis B therapy to support planned regulatory applications, it said on ...

GSK’s potential “functional cure” for hepatitis B drug has proven its worth in a pair of hotly anticipated phase 3 studies, setting up the pharma for a push to the FDA. The British drugmaker had been ...

Alaska state health officials continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns, despite a recent, controversial change in federal guidance. State Epidemiology Chief Dr. Joe McLaughlin ...