Viral hepatitis types A, B, C, D and E can cause infection and subsequent liver inflammation. [iStockphoto] Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, a vital organ ...

Hepatitis is an inflammatory disease which affects the liver and is often misunderstood by many individuals due to misconceptions. With an estimated 345 million individuals worldwide living with ...

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, or ...

PHOENIX — The number of hepatitis A cases linked to frozen berries sold at a warehouse grocery store has doubled in less than a week. “The 61 cases are spread over seven states,” said Dr. Rebecca ...

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research in Cancer (WHO-IARC) has now declared hepatitis D, a little-known but deadly virus, carcinogenic, with the hope that it will lead to ...

July 18, 2012 — Individuals who have chronic hepatitis C (HCV) infections, with detectable serum HCV RNA, have a significantly higher risk of dying from liver and non–liver related diseases compared ...

Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for identifying the hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped to limit the spread of the fatal disease and ...

People in Oregon are 2.7 times more likely than people who live in other U.S. states to die from hepatitis C, according to the CDC. The Oregon Health Authority said hepatitis C is the leading cause of ...

Dr. Asare Offei, a consultant hepatobiliary surgeon at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, has revealed that hepatitis B infection is ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Oregon has some of the worst hepatitis C rates in the nation, the Oregon Health Authority announced ...