Liver harm caused by alcohol is a public health problem. Collectively, we need to take better care of our livers by taking steps to reduce alcohol consumption in the population.
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Hepatitis B can lead to liver disease. But we can prevent and manage this viral infection. Here’s what we know about the latest health alert.
Hepatitis E is a global health problem with about 20 million cases occurring annually, three million symptomatic cases, and 60,000 deaths.
An unexplained rise in cases of hepatitis among children around the world in 2022 may be linked to a virus known as AAV2, according to three new studies.
Using a Nobel Prize-winning technique called cryo-EM, researchers were able to identify potential areas on the hepatitis C virus that a vaccine could target.
Millions of Americans wear jewelry that pierces the ear, nose, lips, tongue and genital areas. But adorning yourself with metal body art can be a health hazard.
Over 1,000 cases of severe hepatitis without any explainable cause have been reported in children so far this year.
Just because many of the children in the current severe hepatitis outbreak were exposed to dogs, doesn’t mean dogs are the cause.
The eyes can reveal many health problems, from high cholesterol to thyroid disease.
Scientists are urgently trying to find the cause of the global outbreak of severe liver disease in young children. So far, adenovirus seems to be the best lead.
While COVID-19 hasn’t been ruled out as a potential cause, the leading contender is actually adenovirus, a common infection in children that can lead to hepatitis on rare occasions.
DNA and mRNA vaccines produce a different kind of immune response than traditional vaccines, allowing researchers to tackle some previously unsolvable problems in medicine.
HBV cases in Nigeria point to a potential liver disease crisis. Prevention and care efforts are needed.
World Hepatitis Day is a clear call to improve efforts towards eliminating a disease that globally kills one person every 30 seconds.
New strategy helps build synthetic organs from scratch. This enabled the researchers to grow functioning liver tissue in the lab that could be transplanted into mice with liver disease.
Michael Houghton, an Edmonton-based virologist, was one of the recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for the discovery of hepatitis C.
HIV/AIDS receives more funding than hepatitis, which is responsible for more deaths.
About 19 million Nigerians have hepatitis but most of them don’t know it.
St. Patrick’s Day is typically a day of drinking and revelry, if not reverence for Ireland’s patron saint. In this year’s subdued celebration environment, a biochemist suggests thanking our livers.
Babies in Australia have been vaccinated against hepatitis B since May 2000, but 240,000 Australians still live with the disease.
Top contributors
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Associate Professor of Microbial Bioinformatics, Nottingham Trent University
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Infectious Diseases Physician, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney; Scientia Professor, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Senior Communications Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Lecturer, Gastroenterology & Hepatology Unit and Consultant Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist, University of Ibadan
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Manager, Centre for Genome-Enabled Biology & Medicine, University of Aberdeen
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Professor, Molecular Immunology, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Glasgow
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Research associate, The Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Research Fellow at Monash University, Monash University
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University of Nairobi
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Professor of Immunology and Director of Research, Moi University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; IF Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge; Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute