Hepatitis B may cause cirrhosis from ongoing liver inflammation, which can lead to scar tissue forming on your liver over time. Hepatitis B is a liver infection that occurs from the hepatitis B virus ...

When damage to the liver caused by alcohol or viral infections persists, liver fibrosis progresses and replaces tissue with ...

Cirrhosis is the result of long-term liver injury where healthy tissue is replaced with scar tissue (fibrosis). Common causes of cirrhosis include alcohol use disorder (AUD), nonalcoholic fatty liver ...

Viral hepatitis is a leading cause of liver disease, liver cancer and liver transplant in the United States and is a focus of an annual national awareness campaign that occurs each May. While viral ...

Alcohol-induced hepatitis is liver damage caused by over-consuming alcohol. It can progress to severe liver scarring called cirrhosis if you continue alcohol use. Alcohol-induced hepatitis, formally ...

Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. It’s considered acute until it lasts six months, at which point it’s considered chronic. Complications that can develop from chronic hepatitis include a ...

A new scoring system using common clinical parameters accurately identifies chronic liver disease patients with a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first recommended vaccinating all babies against hepatitis B at birth in ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel weighed a possible delay to hepatitis B vaccines for newborns ...