Hepatitis—inflammation of the liver—affects millions of people worldwide each year. This potentially serious condition can stem from viral infections, alcohol consumption, toxins, medications ...

Hepatitis can damage your liver for years without symptoms. Learn how these viruses spread—and what truly protects your liver ...

While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the body's defences are unable to ...

A Chinese woman who had been drinking wastewater for five years due to a pipe mix-up suffered liver damage. Li from Shanghai ...

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Liver fibrosis has five categories: minimal, mild, moderate, to severe chronic levels of hepatitis. Symptoms in the latter categories include difficulty thinking clearly, nausea, and fluid buildup ...

In rare cases, hepatitis B has been known to spread from a health-care worker to a patient during certain medical procedures. This is when the health-care worker may injure themselves and expose their ...

The diagnosis of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection is based on the detection of anti-HAV IgM. Shortcomings of this serological approach include the persistence of IgM after normalization of liver ...

Two dozen people were sickened in the Netherlands after eating blueberries contaminated with hepatitis A. The National Institute for Public Health ...