Hepatitis B is a life-threatening liver infection that is caused by the hepatitis B virus, whereas, hepatitis D infection only occurs in people who are infected with the hepatitis B virus. It ...

You’re probably aware that there is more than one form of hepatitis, but it’s understandable if you can’t keep them all straight. After all, there are five main forms of the disease. But while they ...

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician whose medical practice focused on hepatitis B, said he's "very ...

In a commentary published in Gastroenterology, leading experts urge that all newborns in the United States continue to ...

An economic evaluation found that screening followed by intensive lifestyle intervention plus either semaglutide (Ozempic, ...

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research in Cancer (WHO-IARC) has now declared hepatitis D, a little-known but deadly virus, carcinogenic, with the hope that it will lead to ...

Hepatitis D Virus (HDV) Particle. Image Made According To A View Under Transmission Electron Microscope, Viral Diameter 35 Nm. This is the first part of a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like ...

Of all the hepatitis viruses, D is the most poorly known. This small virus, which can only infect people already infected with Hepatitis B, has so far been little studied. Hepatitis D is one of the ...

Confused about all of the different types of hepatitis? All five kinds of hepatitis — A, B, C, D and E — target the liver but do so in different ways with ...

This story is part of a larger series on viroids and virusoids, small infectious RNAs. It is also the eighth installment in a series on hepatitis D virus, a virusoid-like pathogen that causes serious ...