NASHVILLE — In this Healio video from the ACG Annual Meeting, Tatyana Kushner, MD, MSCE, discusses new treatments for hepatitis B and delta hepatitis.
“It’s a really exciting time for treatment advances for both hepatitis B and co-infection with delta hepatitis,” Kushner, associate professor of medicine and director of outcomes clinical research in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology at Weill Cornell Medicine, told Healio.

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