Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C are viral types of liver disease that are often not diagnosed until damage occurs to the liver.

Hepatitis is a global health issue, affecting millions of lives worldwide. It medically denotes liver inflammation which is a diagnostic characteristic caused by various conditions such as infections ...

Hepatitis E viruses (HEV) typically cause liver infections. They can, however, also infect other organs and cause neurological disorders. Little is yet known about how this process works. In a first, ...

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. It’s considered acute until it lasts six months, at which point it’s considered chronic. Complications that can develop from chronic hepatitis include a ...

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. It usually results from a viral infection, but drugs, toxins, and certain diseases, including autoimmune diseases, may also cause the condition. A (HAV) ...

Following the identification of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV), it was apparent that additional hepatotropic viruses existed. Initially, they were grouped as non-A, non-B ...

Observational studies of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression have long tied viral infections with behavioral symptoms in these disorders, but scientists ...

An international team of virologists, mammalian ecologists and zoologists has uncovered the evolutionary origins of the hepatitis E virus. In their study, published in the Proceedings of the National ...

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 ...

The new test enables clinicians to reliably diagnose HDV and monitor patients’ treatment response.Hepatitis D  affects nearly 12 million of people globally and is considered the most aggressive form ...