Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD The majority of children and adults who receive the hepatitis B (hep B) virus ...

Hepatitis B is a liver disease caused by a virus and can be transmitted during birth, during sex and through blood-to-blood contact. A blood test can show if a person is infected or has had hepatitis ...

A 71-year-old grandmother is among those to have been diagnosed with hepatitis B as a result of a new screening programme. Renuka Chandan, from Sutton Coldfield, went to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in ...

NSW Health’s Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is notifying about 223 women who gave birth at Nepean ...

And if you’re pregnant, you can pass it on to your newborn. Viral hepatitis is an inflammation of your liver that's caused by a virus. The most common ones in the U.S. are hep A, B, and C.

NSW Health has apologised to more than 300 women and children who were potentially exposed to hepatitis B at the Nepean Hospital Birth Unit over more than a decade. A health alert was issued after ...

GSK’s antisense-based drug for chronic hepatitis B (CHB), bepirovirsen, will get a rapid six-month review from the FDA when it is filed for approval, said the drugmaker this morning. The fast ...

Hundreds of women who gave birth at Nepean Hospital over an 11-year period have been issued an urgent warning to test for hepatitis B after a health care worker tested positive. NSW Health has begun ...

have been urged to see their GP as soon as possible and have a blood test for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV. The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) have issued an interim prohibition ...