World Hepatitis Day - 28th July 2025

According to the World Hepatitis Alliance, each year there are more than a million people who lose their lives to hepatitis and over 2 million new cases of hepatitis recorded each year.  They estimate that there are more than 300 million people worldwide living with the disease.  World Hepatitis Day takes place each year as part of the campaign to raise awareness about this preventable disease.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES  

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

 

BOOKS   

• Hepatitis C and B: management and treatment; Poynard, T, 2019 (CRC Press); 2^nd edition.

• The liver in systemic disease: a clinician's guide to abnormal liver tests; Hirschfield, Gideon M; Gill, Paramjit; Neuberger, James; 2023 (Wiley Blackwell) – [Also available as both Keele & NHS e-books]

• Sherlock's diseases of the liver and biliary system; Dooley, James; Lok, Anna S. F; Garcia-Tsao, Guadalupe; Pinzani, Massimo; 2018; 13th edition (Wiley Blackwell) – [Also available as a Keele e-book]

• Protocol for the Performance Evaluation of Nucleic Acid Tests for the Quantitative Detection of Hepatitis B Virus DNA for WHO Prequalification Assessment; 2024; (World Health Organisation); 1^st edition – [available as an Open Access e-book]

• Handbook of Liver Disease; Friedman, Lawrence S; 2018 (Elsevier); 4^th edition – [only available for UHNM staff through ClinicalKey with an OpenAthens password]

• Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease; Feldman, Mark; 2021 (Elsevier) – [only available for UHNM staff through ClinicalKey with an OpenAthens password]

• Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology; Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau; Hobbs, Marcia Metzgar; 2020; Wolters Kluwer); 4^th international edition.

 

JOURNALS   

• Hematology, transfusion and cell therapy; AssociaCAo Brasileira de Hematologia, Hemoterapia e Terapia Celular, author, issuing body; (Brazil Associacao Brasileira de Hematologia) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2018 onwards.

• Microbial genomics; Society for General Microbiology, author, issuing body; (Microbiology Society) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2015 onwards.

• Euroasian journal of hepato-gastroenterology; Euroasian Gastroenterological Association, issuing body; Viral Hepatitis Foundation Bangladesh, issuing body; (Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2014 onwards.

• Journal of viral hepatitis (Online); (Blackwell Science) – available as a Keele e-journal from 1997 onwards, and as a NHS e-journal 1998 onwards with 1 year embargo.

• JHEP reports: innovation in hepatology; European Association for the Study of the Liver, issuing body; (Elsevier) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2019 onwards

• Hepatology communications; American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, sponsoring body; (Wolters Kluwer) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2017 onwards

• International journal of hepatology; Hindawi Publishing Corporation; (Wiley) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 2011 onwards.

• Hepatic Medicine: Evidence and Research. Dove Medical Press (Tayor & Francis) – available as an Open Access e-journal from 1999 onwards.

N.B. NHS members can obtain temporary Keele IT log-ins to view Keele e-journals from the Keele IT suite in the Health Library at Royal Stoke. NHS ejournals will require NHS members to login with an NHS Athens account to access articles.

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/  

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

• “The Camden and Islington Viral Hepatitis Identification Tool (CIVHIT): Use of a Clinical Database Case‐Finding Tool for Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV in Primary Care”; Etoori, David; Cococcia, Sara; Srivastava, Ankur; Flanagan, Stuar; et al; Journal of viral hepatitis, 2025-04, Vol.32 (4), p.e14027-n/a

• “Primary healthcare as a strategy for eliminating hepatitis C: the METRIC toolkit”; Baptista-Leite, Ricardo; Lopes, Henrique; Franco, Diogo; et al; Primary health care research & development, 2024-11, Vol.25, p.e61, Article e61

• “Efficacy and safety of hepatitis B vaccine: an umbrella review of meta-analyses”; Qiu, Jiamin; Zhang, Shiwen; Feng, Yonghui; Su, Xin; et al; Expert review of vaccines, 2024-12, Vol.23 (1), p.69-81

• “Real-world pharmacovigilance reports of hepatitis A inactivated and hepatitis B (recombinant) vaccine: insights from disproportionality analysis of the vaccine adverse event reporting system”; Zhou, Yuhang; Wang, Yue; Feng, Yun; et al; Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2025-06, Vol.15

• “Prevention of vertical transmission of hepatitis B: A retrospective review of a 5‐year maternal–infant cohort in London”; O'Mahony, Elizabeth; Raghunanan, Sophie; Brown, Ashley; Foster, Caroline; Journal of paediatrics and child health, 2024-09, Vol.60 (9), p.422-427

• “Viral hepatitis E: Clinical manifestations, treatment, and prevention”; Luo, Qiumin; Chen, Jia; Zhang, Yeqiong; Xu, Wenxiong; Liu, Ying; Xie, Chan; Peng, Liang; Liver research, 2024-03, Vol.8 (1), p.11-21

• “Mission 2030: Toward universal hepatitis B immunization”; Broeckhoven, Elias; Dallmeier, Kai; Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2025-12, Vol.21 (1), p.2473222

• “Patient–navigator working alliance and hepatitis C treatment cascade outcomes among persons who inject drugs: The HERO study”; Lopes, Snehal S; Dotherow, J. Edward; Pericot-Valverde, Irene; Lum, Paula J; et al; Drug and alcohol dependence, 2025-05, Vol.270, p.112617, Article 112617

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available online to both Keele & NHS users.

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

• NHS website:

• Hepatitis - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hepatitis/

• Charities / Further information:

• World Hepatitis Alliance - https://www.worldhepatitisalliance.org/

• Clinical Key – Patient Education Leaflets [Available to UHNM only with OpenAthens log-in]:

• Hepatitis B: What to Know - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_e9a05237-6370-4c44-9078-3fa6fae0edeb

• Hepatitis C: What to Know - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_af1d0f1f-1ce8-4f94-9c07-f483708b5da6

• Autoimmune Hepatitis in Adults: What to Know - https://www.clinicalkey.com/#!/content/patient_handout/5-s2.0-pe_63fbf541-6ed2-4d47-994d-b9c4c9c9e0f9

 

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