Hepatitis News

It's been licensed from Debiopharm Group, an independent biopharmaceuticals company based in Switzerland, under an agreement which gives Novartis exclusive worldwide development and marketing rights outside of Japan.

Mon Feb 8, 2010 10:50am EST - A medical assistant injects a vaccine in a file photo.

The liver processes your body's waste products and detoxifies harmful substances that you ingest, such as alcohol.

Early treatment improves outcomes in acute hepatitis C virus infection, finds the most recent issue of the Journal of Viral Hepatitis.

Journal entry: Dec. 2, 1988 I care to belong to any club that won't accept people like me as members.

At the start of this new decade, liver disease continues to be major source of morbidity and mortality both at home and around the world.

NVHR made the comments in conjunction with World Cancer Day 2010 , which is being observed today and led by the International Union Against Cancer.

India Gazette Friday 29th January, 2010 Seven blood samples of jaundice patients in the Himachal Pradesh state capital have tested positive for Hepatitis E - the first incidence of the virus spread liver disease in the state, a health official said Friday.

Shares of Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. advanced Tuesday after the company said it entered a partnership to develop and sell its hepatitis B and HIV drug candidate elvucitabine in China and other territories.

Author affiliations: Pasteur Institute, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam ; Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan ; World Health Organization Technical Office, Ho Chi Minh City ; and Vietnam Field Epidemiology Training Program Office, Hanoi, Vietnam To the Editor: Hantaviruses are primarily rodentborne and can cause hemorrhagic ...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Stakeholder Insight: Hepatitis B & C in Asia - China, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey" report to their offering.

Home : Top Stories : Planning a winter getaway? How to avoid malaria Planning a winter getaway? How to avoid malaria Angela Mulholland, CTV.ca News Date: Saturday Jan.

Doctors in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre are treating two babies who suffered shock after being given three different vaccines on Monday, the director of a local hospital said.

Scientists looking for a treatment for a dangerous liver virus have found new ways to study it in the laboratory.

Stakeholder Insight: Hepatitis B & C in Asia - China, South Korea, Taiwan and Turkey China, Taiwan, South Korea and Turkey represent highly endemic areas for viral Hepatitis.

Researchers from France and Hong Kong determined that transient elastography , a noninvasive, ultrasonic imaging modality, can be accurately performed in the majority of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease to exclude advanced fibrosis.

As many as 5.3 million people in the United States have hepatitis B or C but most are unaware until they develop liver cancer or liver disease, researchers say.

How's this for an unsettling statistic: up to 1 in 50 Americans are living with chronic viral hepatitis, but most of them don't know it.

Dynavax Technologies Corporation announced today data from two studies that differentiate SD-101 from standard-of-care as well as emerging treatments for chronic HCV infection.

Researchers at MIT and Rockefeller University have successfully grown hepatitis C virus in otherwise healthy liver cells in the laboratory, an advance that could allow scientists to develop and test new treatments for the disease.