Hepatitis News

As people infected with HIV live longer with antiretroviral drug therapy, more of them are developing hepatocellular carcinoma , which is particularly aggressive among this population.

In recognition of National Hepatitis C Testing Day on Sunday, May 19, the Rhode Island Department of Health encourages all Rhode Islanders born between 1945 and 1965 to be tested for Hepatitis C at least once, or more often if they have known risk factors.

In an attempt to clear up the perception that Dr. Dipak Desai operated filthy endoscopy clinics where medication was misused and feces remained on the walls after colonoscopies, defense lawyers revealed Friday that the Shadow Lane facility received a prestigious national rating in October 2007.

When Amtrak unveils the first of 70 new locomotives Monday at a plant in California, it will mark what the national passenger railroad service hopes will be a new era of better reliability, streamlined maintenance and better energy efficiency.

A new Yale study looks at the scope and consequences of a burgeoning health problem in the cities of the U.S. Northeast: concurrent infection with both HIV and Hepatitis C . The study appears online in the May 14 issue of the Public Library of Science .

Hepatitis C is a specific type of hepatitis disease caused by a virus, spread by contact with infected blood.

Victims of the tainted blood scandal and their families are urging the Ontario and federal governments to stop proposed blood-plasma clinics from operating in the province.

Cobb Public Health officials are encouraging parents and caregivers to get Hepatitis A and B vaccines for their children.

About ninety percent of immunocompetent adults recover from hepatitis B virus infection within 6 months after transmission.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health and Tulsa Health Department announced the fifth round of test results from patients of W. Scott Harrington's dental surgical practice.

To determine the factors associated with change in bilirubin concentration 12 weeks after the initiation of an atazanavir -containing antiretroviral regimen.

Responses were durable, with disease progression stalled for an average of 17 months -- noteworthy because CLL patients enrolled in the phase I study had already undergone an average of five prior therapies.

DOHA: About 150 million people are chronically infected and at risk of developing liver cirrhosis and/or liver cancer, and more than 350,000 people die from Hepatitis C Virus related liver diseases every year, Dr Laith Abu-Raddad said last night at a community health forum in Doha.

They praise her yet, this Rowan Stringer, and shall for a long time. At 17, she gave so much of herself.

A team of researchers, from the Pharmacology Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science , has certified "Hepita3", a herbal product from the Power Specialist Herbal Clinic, at Kyereapatre in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region, has the potency to cure the deadly Hepatitis B illness.

Fairfield High School students are using a novel art project to help beat hepatitis B and reduce the burden of liver cancer in the local area.

Janssen Research & Development, LLC announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Priority Review to the New Drug Application for simeprevir , an investigational NS3/4A protease inhibitor administered as a 150 mg capsule once daily with pegylated interferon and ribavirin for the treatment of genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C ... (more)

Health advocates expect more baby boomers will screen for Hepatitis C, with the opening of a long-awaited treatment and support centre.

The Oklahoma State Board of Health is scheduled to meet partly in executive session to discuss the ongoing investigation of Tulsa oral surgeon Dr.

The Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner is encouraging Tennesseans to take an online assessment provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to find learn the risk for hepatitis.