Hepatitis B News

• CDC Signs Off on COVID Boosters in Children Ages 5-11 An advisory panel also called for stepped-up efforts to make sure children get their initial vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Physicians Assess Cardiovascular Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines After a review of the data, the Brazilian Society of Cardiology concluded that the benefits of vaccination outweigh the potential risks of thrombotic thrombocytopenia and myocarditis.
  Medscape Medical News, April 11, 2022
• CDC Recommends Hep B Vaccination for Most Adults Faced with an increasing incidence of hepatitis B infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expanded its vaccination recommendation to include most adults.
  Medscape Medical News, April 01, 2022
• Alert EMA Recommends PreHevbri Hepatitis B Vaccine for Approval The three-antigen hepatitis B vaccine received approval from the FDA in November 2021.
  International Approvals, March 01, 2022
• Gene Therapy: A 'One and Done' Hemophilia B Treatment? Nearly all patients treated with a one-time gene therapy shot for hemophilia B were able to discontinue full-dose bleeding prophylaxis, says a study. Annual bleed rates fell by 64% after the lead-in period.
  Medscape Medical News, February 22, 2022
• Alert ACIP Issues Adult Vaccination Schedule 2022 Changes affect zoster, pneumococcal, and hepatitis B vaccines, and COVID-19 is now included.
  News Alerts, February 17, 2022
• AAP Approves CDC's Child/Adolescent Vax Schedule for 2022 The updated schedule contains only minor changes from 2021.
  Medscape Medical News, February 17, 2022
• Hep B Testing, Vaccine Seen Cost-Effective in Pregnant Women Although vaccination is not routine during pregnancy, guidelines from ACOG state that at-risk women should be screened and vaccinated for hepatitis B during pregnancy.
  Medscape Medical News, February 10, 2022
• COVID Vaccines Open Rifts Between Parents, Children Teenagers, states, and physicians looking for ways to put shots in young arms when parents are vaccine-hesitant.
  Medscape Medical News, February 08, 2022
• GICS 2022 Adding TACE to Lenvatinib Improves Survival in Liver Cancer Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) added onto lenvatinib is a new first-line option for patients with advanced liver cancer, say LAUNCH trialists.
  Medscape Medical News, January 25, 2022
• Higher Corticosteroid Dose Tied to HBV Reactivation in People With Resolved Infection In people with resolved hepatitis B virus infection, exposure to higher doses of corticosteroids is associated with an increased risk of HBV reactivation and hepatitis flare, according to researchers in China.
  Reuters Health Information, January 20, 2022
• HCC Prevention Should Target Patients With Moderate Fibrosis Efforts to prevent hepatocellular carcinoma unrelated to hepatitis or cirrhosis should be focused on individuals with an intermediate degree of liver fibrosis, suggests a large-scale data analysis.
  First Look, December 20, 2021
• USCHA 2021 New Hepatitis B Vaccination Recommendations Praised With hepatitis B vaccination rates low and infection rates rising, experts hope the new recommendations will raise clinician awareness and simplify screening.
  Medscape Medical News, December 16, 2021
• AASLD 2021 Bulevirtide Shows Real-World Efficacy Versus HDV French program reveals good cure rates but also a high rate of modifications or discontinuations.
  Medscape Medical News, December 10, 2021
• AASLD 2021 Be Cautious With HBV Drug Withdrawal More than half of chronic hepatitis B e antigen–negative patients who withdraw from nucleoside or nucleotide analogue therapy experienced relapse within 4 years.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• Booster Counteracts Waning Immunity of Initial Pfizer Doses A large study shows that the chances of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the first 2 months after the Pfizer booster drop an estimated 86% compared with having only the two primary shots.
  Medscape Medical News, December 01, 2021
• From Cows to COVID: The Spooky Origins of Vaccines Like many life-saving innovations in medicine, vaccination emerged long before we understood how it worked.
  Undark, November 12, 2021
• ACIP Recommends Universal HBV Vaccination for Adults Under 60 Will the universal recommendation help reinvigorate stalling declines in hepatitis B infections over the past decade?
  Medscape Medical News, November 04, 2021
• Novel Blood-Based Panel Highly Effective for Early-Stage HCC A test like this could help enhance guideline-recommended surveillance methods used for at-risk patients.
  Medscape Medical News, November 04, 2021
• Liver Disease Linked to Higher Rate of Cardiovascular Disease Liver disease was linked to a doubling of risk for cardiovascular disease compared with no liver disease in observational data.
  First Look, November 02, 2021