The history of the hepatitis B vaccine has been marked by controversies, from the ‘Australia antigen’ to the ‘Pediatric ...

Some villagers, however, claimed that the number of deaths was higher and included a few youngsters. Read on to know more ...

Thursday to remove hepatitis B from the list of required vaccines in New Hampshire. Rep. Kelley Potenza, a Rochester ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently voted to stop recommending a universal dose of the hepatitis ...

A clinical trial led by Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has found that point-of-care testing for hepatitis B DNA is as ...

Giving some newborns in Guinea-Bissau an established hepatitis B treatment but not others is "unethical", it says.

The World Health Organization (WHO) underscores that the hepatitis B birth dose vaccine is an effective, and essential public ...

Update: On Dec. 5, a federal vaccine panel voted 8-3 to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine. The committee kept the recommendation that babies of ...

The hepatitis B surface antibody test (HBsAb) detects antibodies in the blood to determine if someone is immune to the hepatitis B virus (HBV). A negative or nonreactive result means the individual is ...

Hepatitis B is a viral infection that impacts the liver. To test for hepatitis B, a doctor can perform a blood test that detects hepatitis B surface antigens. A positive result indicates a hepatitis B ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticized a planned hepatitis B vaccine trial involving thousands of newborns in ...