Hepatitis B doesn't only affect adults. Babies can get it from their mothers at birth, as well as from others who are infected, and the consequences can be long-lasting. "The hepatitis B vaccine is ...

When Wendy Lo was pregnant with her first child, she lost sleep over whether she would transmit her chronic hepatitis B infection to him. Her doctor reassured her that if they vaccinated him within 24 ...

Hepatitis A and hepatitis E are viral infections that primarily affect the liver and are transmitted through the fecal-oral ...

After being sidelined by federal cuts, two CDC workers are organizing others to push back and demand accountability.

"An adversarial collaboration on vaccines could serve as a model," write Drs. Christopher M. Worsham and Anupam B. Jena.

Northwell Health partnered with Stacker to explore the socioeconomic causes behind the drop in childhood immunizations, using ...

only the CDC has the capacity to test for rarer forms of sexually transmitted diseases and hepatitis. In most developed countries, governments produce these tests since it is usually unprofitable ...

Common causes of this include hepatitis B and C, NAFLD, and alcoholic liver disease ... So much so, in fact, that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that only 1.8% of the 4.5 ...

Massachusetts is the best state for children’s health, with the fourth-highest percentage of children who had both a medical ...

The liver is one of the body’s most vital organs, working tirelessly behind the scenes to detoxify, regulate metabolism, ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly has plans to perform ... qualification that the measles and the hepatitis B vaccines do not cause autism?” ...