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Phlebotomy — reducing blood volume — is a common treatment for both cutaneous porphyria and hemochromatosis.

Multiple FDA labs were cut amid Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s layoffs this week.

The CDC's potential 'streamlining' of programs to prevent HIV has two Southern California health agencies worried the potentially deadly virus could infect more people.

Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly claimed on the latest episode of her podcase that she suffers from an 'unspecified autoimmune condition' from her Pfizer Covid vaccine and booster.

The Supreme Court is set to hear a case arguing insurers are not obligated to cover HIV-prevention drugs.

Surgeons who worked in Gaza fear disease, malnutrition and eradication of healthcare will reverberate for decades

With better risk stratification, clinicians may be able to optimize medical management of patients with chronic HBV who don't meet current criteria for antiviral treatment.

Ingfei Chen writes about hepatitis B, which can lead to liver cancer and often goes undetected.

Patients with alcohol-associated liver disease could benefit from treatment of alcohol use disorder, yet pharmacologic therapy remains underutilized in this at-risk group.

The Nobel Assembly said that the discovery is "fundamentally important."

"Tumor behavior upon recurrence is often more aggressive, and patients may quickly exhaust safe and effective options for surgery and radiation."

Amid recent reports of a contaminated water supply in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Fox News Digital asked experts whether it's safe to drink unfiltered tap water.

Vaccination is likely to be an uphill struggle after re-emergence of the disease in the territory, where war has decimated healthcare

Sovaldi, Harvoni and tenofovir gave hepatitis B and C patients hope, but the WHO says deaths and infections from the virus are increasing.

Non-statin cholesterol absorption inhibitors may be associated with a reduced risk for primary liver cancer, whereas bile acid sequestrants may increase that risk.

An anesthesiologist contracted at various Oregon health care facilities did not practice proper infection control, posing a risk to patients.

More than 2,400 patients may have been exposed to infectious diseases because of an anesthesiologist who may not have followed infection control practices, officials said.

Officials with health care companies in Oregon say more than 2,400 patients at hospitals in the Portland area may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, and HIV, because of a physician who may not have followed infection co...