The prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the U.S. may be as high as 2.2 million cases according to a new study now available in Hepatology, a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine will receive up to $6.2 million over five years from the National Institute Of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome, commonly called SARS.

The discovery of a mummified Korean child with relatively preserved organs enabled an Israeli-South Korean scientific team to conduct a genetic analysis on a liver biopsy which revealed a unique hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype C2 sequence common in Southeast Asia.

SHENZHEN, China, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asian Cancer Research Group (ACRG)--an independent, not-for-profit company established by Eli Lilly and Company, Merck (known as MSD outside

HELSINKI, Finland, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncos Therapeutics today announced the successful initiation of its Phase I clinical study of CGTG-102, an oncolytic adenovirus