HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii’s Kaiser Permanente Viral Hepatitis Clinic has reached a major milestone toward combative Hepatitis outcomes. On Wednesday the clinic announced it cured its 1,000 ...

Considered once to be a lifelong disease, Hepatitis C has now been treated and cured in 1,000 patients at Kaiser Permanente.

An estimated 2 million adults in the US have chronic hepatitis C, with new infections on the rise. Many patients are unaware ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

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

The only natural host of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is humans. Model organisms for laboratory studies, especially mice, cannot be infected, which makes the search for a vaccine against HCV extremely ...

Additionally, the serum HBV-DNA concentration is affected by the amount of intracellular HBV-cccDNA and the virus’s replication efficiency (16 ... Countdown to 2030:eliminating hepatitis B disease, ...

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Viral infectious diseases, caused by numerous viruses including severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), influenza A virus (IAV), enterovirus (EV), human immunodeficiency virus ...

A model for hepatitis B virus-associated chronic liver ... These mice consistently support virus gene expression and replication. After adoptive transfer of unprimed, syngeneic splenocytes ...

Hepatitis C can be transmitted when blood that carries the virus comes into contact with the blood of someone who does not have the virus. This can occur if people share needles or personal care ...