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A recent study of more than 1,000 veterans found that nearly 1% had hepatitis B and 14% had been exposed to the virus.

The latest revision recognizes the importance of treatment as prevention.

Experts are not certain what this latest trend signifies for the trajectory of the opioid use disorder epidemic, however.

Health officials with Goshen Hospital in Indiana called the risk of infection “extremely low.”

Hepatitis B and C, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and alcohol-related liver disease are the main causes of liver cancer and cirrhosis.

New cases of all three viruses have declined in the city over the past decade.

TellYourPartner.org allows you to anonymously relay via text or email that you might have passed on a sexually transmitted infection.

Sci-B-Vac may offer more protection for older people and those with a weaker immune system.

Judge’s ruling may pave the way for opening the nation’s first supervised overdose prevention facility.

Efforts to control viral hepatitis are falling behind, in part because of the growing opioid epidemic and homelessness crisis.

National survey finds HBV rate is four times higher than that of the overall U.S. population.

The change targets LGBT people and those with chronic conditions. Here’s how patient groups and Lambda Legal respond.

Help find the “missing millions” who don’t know they’re living with viral hepatitis.

Better treatments for hepatitis B and C and a lack of such advances for fatty liver or alcoholic liver disease are driving outcomes.

Four things you should know to be #HepAware.

It’s Hepatitis Awareness Month. Find out if money poses a risk for transmitting viral hepatitis.