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1 min ago | The Guelph Mercury

Porn makers fight condom rule as California bill pushes protection

The bill, which a committee will consider Friday, would require studios to ensure that performers are safe from sexually transmitted diseases by wearing condoms or other protective barriers during filming.

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Related Topix: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Medicine, Health, Canoga Park, CA, Human Sexuality, Los Angeles County, CA

2 hrs ago | Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables

Table I Summary of provisional cases of selected notifiable diseases, United States, cumulative, week ending May 18, 2013 Figure I Selected notifiable disease reports, United States, comparison of provisional 4-week totals ending May 18, 2013, with historical data Table II Provisional cases of selected notifiable diseases, United States, weeks ... (more)

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Related Topix: Influenza, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

6 hrs ago | KCTV5

CDC urges baby boomers to get Hepatitis C test

If anyone is in that age group, they have probably had a blood draw before, say for a cholesterol test, but this is a lot easier and a lot quicker.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

7 hrs ago | The Courier Mailer

Pacific University student's 'no excuses' motto gets her to graduation

Flooded with excitement at the sound of her name, Pacific University student Jayme Vincent walked across the commencement stage, smiling ear to ear.

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Related Topix: Pacific University, Hillsboro, OR, Medicine, Health

11 hrs ago | MediLexicon

New Drugs For IBS, Hepatitis C

Research presented at Digestive Disease Week explores pharmaceutical advances for treating irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea and hepatitis C. An international study holds promising results for patients suffering from IBS-D. In the phase II study, researchers found that the drug ibodutant significantly improved symptoms in more than 50 percent ... (more)

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Related Topix: Health, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, World News, Belgium

Wed May 22, 2013

Benson County News

Community Cares

Helping a child in need may be easier than you think, by redirecting a common resource that often just goes to waste.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Asian-American, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Breast Cancer

Freshnews

Hepatitis Awareness: Bringing Attention to a Silent Epidemic

Viral hepatitis is an asymptomatic disease affecting more than 5.3 million Americans.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Live Science

Hepatitis C: A 21st Century Success Story

Hepatitis C has been called a silent epidemic: As the most common blood-borne viral infection in the country, it affects more than 7 million Americans - yet, most don't know they have it.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Liver Cancer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIV/AIDS

Las Vegas Review Journal

Judge admonishes prosecutor in hepatitis C case

A request for a mistrial from Dr. Dipak Desai's defense attorney was not granted.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

HIV and Hepatitis

DDW 2013: Does Treating Herpes Help Suppress Hepatitis C Virus?

Treating herpes simplex virus type 2 with valacyclovir was associated with a substantial reduction in plasma hepatitis C virus levels in dually-infected individuals, according to a small study presented at the Digestive Disease Week conference this week in Orlando.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Herpes, Health, Valtrex, Valacyclovir (generic), Jackson, MS, HIV/AIDS

OttawaHerald.com

County concerned by Hepatitis C rise in Baby Boomers

In the first four months of the year, Franklin County already reported 63 percent of the number of Hepatitis C cases identified in 2012, significantly more than in other years, Midge Ransom, Franklin County health department director, said.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Franklin County, KS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Liver Cancer

Charleston Business Journal

North Charleston spinal care center cooperating with DHEC

The Tri-County Spinal Care Center continues to provide noninvasive care and is cooperating with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control as it looks into how three patients who were treated at the clinic contracted hepatitis B. "We are surprised and very concerned for our patients," said Cameron Wills, a chiropractic physician for ... (more)

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Related Topix: Charleston, SC, North Charleston, SC, Medicine, Health, Chiropractic

Information Technology

European Medicines Agency Validates Gilead's Marketing Application...

Gilead Sciences, Inc. today announced that the company's Marketing Authorisation Application for sofosbuvir, a once-daily oral nucleotide analogue inhibitor for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection, which was submitted to the European Medicines Agency on April 17, 2013, has been fully validated and is now under assessment.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Gilead Sciences, Healthcare Industry, Startups, Marketing, CGI Pharmaceuticals, Health, Liver Cancer

Tue May 21, 2013

Drugs.com

Janssen Phase III Hepatitis C Drug Shows Sustained Virologic Response

Janssen R&D Ireland today announced primary efficacy and safety results from the global Phase 3 PROMISE study demonstrating that use of the investigational protease inhibitor simeprevir led to sustained virologic response 12 weeks after the end of treatment in 79 percent of treatment-experienced genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C adult patients with ... (more)

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Related Topix: Health, Texas

Times Herald-Record

Catskill Hospital warns that insulin pens may have been reused

Catskill Regional Medical Center issued a warning Tuesday that some patients might have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis by the shared use of insulin injection pens.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Nursing

WMBF

3 have hepatitis B after injections at SC clinic

The Department of Health and Environmental Control says all three people received spinal injections with common medications on the same dates in February.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

UnionLeader.com

Nurse fired over link to hepatitis C outbreak sues Exeter Hospital

A former Exeter Hospital nurse and roommate of the man allegedly responsible for the Exeter Hospital hepatitis C outbreak is suing the hospital for wrongful termination.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

Canada.com

Pukay: Vaccination recommended to combat resurgence of leptospirosis

Question: Is leptospirosis enough of a problem to warrant annual vaccination? How do I determine if my dog needs to be vaccinated against this disease? Answer: Leptospirosis has become significantly more prevalent in Canada over the past few years.

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Related Topix: Vaccinations, Health, Medicine, Conjunctivitis

Mon May 20, 2013

The New Zealand Herald

Preschools may get right to bar unvaccinated children

Opponents of vaccinations say they can be unsafe and cause serious side-effects, weaken the immune system, and can cause autism.

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Related Topix: Vaccinations, Health, Medicine, Chickenpox

GastroHep.com

Sofosbuvir for Hep C genotype 2 or 3 in patients without treatment options

This week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine investigates the use of sofosbuvir for Hepatitis C genotype 2 or 3 in patients without treatment options.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health