The type of Ebolavirus causing the outbreak in DRC, called Bundibugyo, is less common than other types of Ebola. There are no vaccines or drugs available to treat it.

Definitive data from a groundbreaking public health initiative led by the University of the Philippines Manila (UPM) has ...

An outbreak of an Ebola virus in central Africa has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the ...

Jody Baron and Gabi Fragiadakis discover why some people with chronic Hepatitis B are cured after they're taken off of ...

Fifteen years ago, doctors in Europe noticed a remarkable thing happening in people with chronic hepatitis B infections. When ...

Bill Cassidy did not want to talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Last month, as we shuffled through the U.S. Senate subway, a ...

FDA regulatory momentum includes priority review and breakthrough therapy designation for a potential first-in-class CHB functional cure, with a PDUFA target date of October 26, 2026. Current ...

The decision by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending giving infants a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours after birth is likely to lead to hundreds of ...

Federal vaccine advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted in December to recommend delaying the first shot until at least two months of age for infants born to mothers who test negative ...

A multinational Hepatitis B and HIV Cure Consortium led by Johns Hopkins Medicine was recently established with the awarding of a five-year, $24 million grant from the National Institutes of Health's ...