Viral Hepatitis News

A 5-year follow-up of the ASCEND study demonstrated increased rates of SVR, high rates of retesting and minimal reinfection among patients with hepatitis C virus regardless of provider type.

Healio will have live coverage of this year’s ESCMID Global, one of the largest medical conferences dedicated to infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in the world.

Clinical Infectious Diseases has launched a new series that will provide an in-depth look at real-life complex cases and the associated diagnostic and management decisions that ID clinicians deal with regularly.

The greatest distributors of hepatitis A virus are children.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next HHS secretary.

The CDC on Thursday published its famed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for the first time since the Trump administration ordered the nation’s various health agencies to freeze public communications.

Senators voted on party lines Tuesday to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next U.S. health secretary.

The CDC’s removal of online resources related to HIV, STIs and other health topics following a Trump administration order to scrub references related to “gender ideology” has alarmed experts, who say it threatens public health.

Viral hepatitis is a major danger to public health. According to WHO’s 2024 Global Hepatitis Report, viral hepatitis deaths increased from 1.1 million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022, rates now similar to tuberculosis.