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Cutting Out Hep B with ‘Molecular Scissors’

A genetic peculiarity that is sometimes found in biochemistry is ‘covalently closed circular DNA‘ (cccDNA), where the DNA molecule, instead of being a long, ribbon-like strand, becomes a closed loop. …

11 September 2025

In Our Library: Resource Highlights, August 2025

HepSA Library August acquisition highlights: Peer Workforce Framework, If Hepatitis Was 100 People, NSP Research and more… Click on the images to access or view all resources added in the last month. …

10 September 2025

Hep C & Mental Illness: New Link Discovered

The blood–brain barrier is a hugely effective “wall” that protects the brain from pathogens in a person’s body. It’s like a highly selective, very fine sieve that allows vital nutrients …

27 August 2025

How Hep B Research Helped when COVID-19 Hit

As the coronavirus spread globally in 2020, and people all around the world began to be uncomfortably familiar with RAT tests and PCR tests, NSW historian Michelle Bootcov realised her …

20 August 2025

In Our Library: Resource Highlights, July 2025

HepSA Library July acquisition highlights: HCV treatment uptake, HCV elimination, POC testing and more… Click on the images to access, or view all resources added in the last month. Monitoring hepatitis C …

15 August 2025

Progress on Closing the Gap is stagnant or going backwards. Here are 3 things to help fix it

The Productivity Commission’s latest data on Closing the Gap progress represents an unsurprisingly grim overview of the socioeconomic inequalities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

5 August 2025

Improving Surveillance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Australia

The incidence of primary liver cancer in Australia has quadrupled since 1982—faster than any other cancer. Yet, the 5-year survival remains just 22%, in stark contrast to countries like Japan, …

31 July 2025

SA Nurses Say Get Tested

Flinders Medical Centre hepatology nurses are urging people to get tested for viral hepatitis. Throwing their support behind Hepatitis SA’s World Hepatitis Day green T-shirts activity, the nurses have put …

28 July 2025

In Our Library: Liver cancer and other hepatitis-related conditions

This World Hepatitis Day we are focussing on testing. Early detection of viral hepatitis is vital to prevent avoidable deaths, like those caused by liver cancer.  Hepatitis B increases liver cancer risk by …

16 July 2025 | Issue 106

World Hepatitis Day 2025 – It’s Time for Action: Testing Saves Lives

In Australia, there are two diseases which, together, kill nearly 1000 people every year. They affect close to 300,000 people and are also the leading causes of rising liver cancer …

14 July 2025 | Issue 106

98.9%: The Hepatitis C Cure Rate with Current Direct-Acting Antivirals

When we at Hepatitis SA talk with members of the community about hepatitis C treatment, we usually point out that the current available cure works for more than 95% of …

4 July 2025 | Issue 106

‘Malhotra Syndrome’: What is it?

A study recently published by a gastroenterology research team in India, has identified a new ”phobia’ in people who have been cured of hepatitis C – the fear of reinfection. …

25 June 2025 | Issue 106

In Our Library: Resource Highlights, May 2025

HepSA Library May acquisition highlights: hepatitis elimination, hepatitis D, World Hepatitis testing Week, and more… Click on the images to access, or view all resources added to our library in the last …

18 June 2025

Experimental Hep B Treatments: Good & Bad News

Two different experimental hepatitis B virus (HBV) treatments have shown very different results in their phase 2 trials in recent weeks. One, while initially promising, has failed to show high …

17 June 2025 | Issue 106

A Promising New Approach to Treating Potentially Deadly Liver Disease

An experimental new treatment is showing early promise in the fight against liver fibrosis – a serious condition that affects millions.

11 June 2025

Transforming Hepatitis B Care: WHO Takes the Lead

Momentum is growing to simplify and expand treatment criteria so that more people with chronic hepatitis B will be treated.

6 June 2025

National Reconciliation Week – a Summary

National Reconciliation Week ends today and here’s a quick wrap of what we found in the– mostly public broadcast – media. Click on the items to read, watch or listen …

3 June 2025

Pat Dodson Urges PM to Act on Reconciliation

Former Labor senator Pat Dodson, sometimes called ‘the Father of Reconciliation’, has emerged from a self-imposed silence to urge the prime minister to take up the cause once more with …

2 June 2025

Beating Cancer Through Hepatitis Elimination

Despite having all the tools to combat liver cancer, a lack of prioritisation and action has resulted in an increase in mortality worldwide. These deaths are entirely preventable if people …

30 May 2025 | Issue 106

National Reconciliation Week 2025: Bridging Now to Next

How to strengthen relationships between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples.

26 May 2025

In Our Library: Highlights, April 2025

New titles added in April include: Hepatitis B and hepatitis C mapping reports, Close the Gap campaign annual report, Human Rights and drug policy report...

14 May 2025

The Hepatitis Delta Global Landscape

WHA calls for hepatitis delta educational programs for community-based organisations and policymakers

12 May 2025

Single-Contact Test and Cure for Hepatitis C?

Long-acting treatment could be the catalyst for hepatitis C elimination in vulnerable communities. Despite the introduction of DAAs 50 million worldwide still live with chronic hepatitis C, and there are …

25 April 2025

Can a Parent’s HBV Affect Their Newborn’s Heart?

Studies have shown a higher rate of congenital heart disease in infants born to parents with hepatitis B.

16 April 2025