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Pig-to-Human Liver Transplant Shows Mixed Success

Part of a liver from a genetically engineered pig has been transplanted into a living human recipient, who then survived a further six months before dying from repeated upper gastrointestinal …

5 November 2025

While We Wait for a Hepatitis B Cure – Screen More, Treat More, Treat Earlier

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is notoriously hard to get rid of. The virus embeds its covalently closed circular DNA (the cccDNA) in the liver, integrating itself into the host …

28 October 2025

My Health Record: BBV results now recorded by default

Recent changes to the processing of pathology reports for My Health Record has elevated the importance of pre-test counselling around implications of test results, where to go for further information, …

23 October 2025

In Our Library: Post Cure – life after hepatitis C

The long-awaited direct-acting antivirals have had significant benefits, with those cured facing much better outcomes than people who have not been treated. However, a number of challenges threaten to undermine the …

22 October 2025 | Issue 107

On the Ground – Great New Location for Uniting Communities U City NSP

by Carol Holly In early September, Uniting Communities, and its partner agencies and supporters, celebrated the opening of a new ground floor space within the Uniting Communities U City site …

17 October 2025

How Machine Learning Can Help Discover Anti-Hepatitis C Drugs

Finding a single novel molecule for drug development can take years. Machine learning can help process billions of molecules in a day, and aid drug discovery against viral illnesses that …

9 October 2025

High Hep C Cure Rate Among NSP Clients

Findings from the Australian Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) Survey 30-year National Data Report shows highly significant reductions in hepatitis C infections and high levels of treatment and cure among …

2 October 2025 | Issue 107

Birth-Dose Vaccination Crucial to Prevention of Chronic Hepatitis B in Children

Hepatitis Australia and ASHM have released a statement reminding all Australians of the importance of hepatitis B vaccinations to protect the health and wellbeing of children. The statement pointed out …

24 September 2025 | Issue 107

Hepatitis B and C: A call to action for nurses and midwives

By Mieken Grant, originally published in the Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal, and reprinted with permission. In Australia, just under 300,000 people live with chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C, …

19 September 2025 | Issue 107

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 | Issue 107

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 | Issue 107

WHD2025 in South Australia

This year, the aim for World Hepatitis Day in Australia was to mobilise efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis by the WHO’s 2030 target. The month around World Hepatitis Day was …

15 August 2025 | Issue 106

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 | Issue 107

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