The Latest Breaking News from Hepatitis

Campaigners want prime minister to advance compensation payments to those infected without delay

Hepatitis cases in children across the UK have risen to 263, the UK Health and Security Agency (UKHSA) has reported.

Here's a roundup of top developments in the biotech space over the last 24 hours:

GSK plc (NYSE:GSK) announced promising interim results from the B-Clear phase 2b trial of bepirovirsen in people with chronic hepatitis B (CHB). The data showed that bepirovirsen reduced hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA after 24 weeks of treatment. In the group of 227 patients on standard…

The infection of up to 30,000 people with HIV or hepatitis C from contaminated blood has been called the NHS’s biggest treatment disaster.

Thirty-three countries have reported 920 probable cases of severe acute hepatitis in children so far, a jump of 270 from May, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The WHO said that the European Region accounted for half the probable cases, including 267 from the United Kingdom, while a…

Health experts don't yet know the reason for the rise - and are investigating its links to Covid-19 infections among the children affected

Vaccitech plc (NASDAQ:VACC) announced an update to the interim analysis of safety and efficacy data from the HBV002 study evaluating ChAdOx1-HBV and MVA-HBV vaccines (VTP-300) in chronic HBV patients who are virally suppressed with oral anti-viral therapies. In the VTP-300 monotherapy group, meaningful and durable reductions of HBsAg were seen in all three patients with…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — George Raya had a seat at the table of the historic 1977 White House meeting of the National Gay Task Force, the first time a president invited LGBTQ advocates to discuss the issues their community faced. The then-27-year-old came with an issue in mind: hepatitis.