Hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes hepatitis B. Worldwide, hepatitis B is thought to be the second deadliest infection; it's estimated that about five percent of the global population have the disease.

FILE - This 1981 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows hepatitis B virus particles, indicated in orange. (Dr. Erskine Palmer/CDC via AP, ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, researchers have identified a vulnerability that opens ...

Learn how ALT flares around childbirth may predict earlier HBeAg clearance in women with hepatitis B and what this could mean for care.

Functional cure, defined as durable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA titers below the lower limit of detection (LLOD), is associated with better clinical outcomes of ...

St. Louis -- In a pair of articles published in Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, scientists lay out the case for why we should expand treatment recommendations for people with hepatitis B.

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A first-of-its-kind drug for hepatitis B is letting some patients stop treatment without showing signs of the dangerous liver virus, what’s called a “functional cure,” researchers ...

Atomic force microscopy images show hepatitis B DNA in its natural state (left) and a zoomed-in look at how it wraps around human histones during an infection (right). The research team determined ...