There are five kinds of hepatitis. Each has different causes, with one commonality: Hepatitis causes your liver to get inflamed. Hepatitis disease can also sometimes be spread through sexual contact.

These seemingly unrelated symptoms might actually be your body’s way of alerting you to hepatitis, an inflammatory condition affecting your liver that often progresses quietly until it causes ...

You may have heard the term hepatitis tossed around in health conversations, but what does it really mean—and how dangerous is it? “Hepatitis refers to inflammation of the liver, and in most cases, it ...

Hepatitis A and B are the most common vaccine-preventable diseases for travelers; nevertheless, up to 50% of confirmed cases of hepatitis A and B in Europe are still acquired during travel. [1 ...

Liver diseases are rising globally, claiming over 2 million lives annually, with viral hepatitis and alcoholic liver disease among the top causes. We got in touch with an expert who explains how their ...

Tuck et al. discuss the unethical lack of access to diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis and consequential avoidable liver cancer cases. Existing evidence and current research in Ghana identifies ...

Effective hepatitis management and elimination strategies require a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. Credit: Jo Panuwat D via Shutterstock. At the 35th European Society of Clinical ...

It is most widely used as an antipruritic agent in the autoimmune cholestatic liver disease, primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). Rifampicin has been reported as causing hepatitis in patients being ...

Direct-acting antiviral therapy has reduced the prevalence of hepatitis C viremia over time among adults with HIV infection in the United States. The prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV ...

After people started testing positive for hepatitis C in a coastal Florida town in December, state officials collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice and mailed them ...

At the 35th European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Global conference in Vienna, Austria, held from April 11-15, the challenges of eliminating viral hepatitis ...

After people started testing positive for hepatitis C in a coastal Florida town in December, state officials collected blood from patients, wrapped their specimens in dry ice and mailed them straight ...