Savage resident Edwin Tan spent his summer carrying a message across the triathlon finish line. Tan, 29, lives with chronic hepatitis B. He said there isn’t a lot of public ...

Biotech giant Gilead Sciences, Inc. GILD is scheduled to report fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 results on Feb. 11, after ...

Many readers wrote to express their strong opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which this week cleared a Senate committee vote and ...

The viral illness kills more people in the city than HIV, but antiviral medications may be helping cut its transmission.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to brelovitug (BJT-778) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis delta (CHD).

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, made disputed claims before the ...

HB-500 is a next-generation therapeutic vaccine being developed in collaboration with Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead) as a potential component of ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health worker Maria Tereza Malheiros Sapienza's curiosity was aroused by her immunity to ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), Rabies, Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2), Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV), Influenza and Asian Bird Flu ...

Hepatitis B (sometimes referred to as hep B) is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). It typically causes symptoms like stomach pain, dark urine, fatigue, fever, jaundice (yellowing ...

A lethal new virus which kills humans has been developed by scientists as part of a US government project. The genetically modified variant of smallpox is so dangerous that, as yet, no vaccination ...