News that a health worker at a Sydney hospital’s birth unit was infectious with hepatitis B for more than a decade has led to a health alert for mothers and babies. The staff member worked at Nepean ...

Vaccination against hepatitis B is a common recommendation, but what exactly is it preventing? HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his advisory group plan to meet this week to discuss and vote on ...

A first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B is letting some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver ...

WASHINGTON — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. Newborn hepatitis B ...

For more than three decades, it has been routine to give all newborns in the U.S. the hepatitis B vaccine. That could soon change. An advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

New research implies that a first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B could allow some patients to stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous virus.

Drug candidate bepirovirsen delivered a functional cure rate for 19% of patients in what the company sees as a breakthrough ...