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Hepatitis Wire

Comprehensive News Feed for Hepatitis.

Results 1 - 20 of 2,452 in Hepatitis

  1. Tom Watkins: CEO shepherds region's most dramatic reversal of fortune at Human Genome Sciences Inc.Read the original story

    11 hrs ago | Washington Business Journal

    ... Genome Sciences was ridiculed for its past spending habits and pitied for a questionable future that included a hepatitis C drug that needed to differentiate itself from its rivals and a lupus drug that had been all but mugged in the unfriendly ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Human Genome Sciences, Healthcare Industry, Health, Lupus

  2. Global Hepatitis B Vaccines market analysis and forecastRead the original story w/Photo

    14 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

    Hepatitis B Vaccines - Pipeline Analysis and Market Forecasts to 2015 This is an essential source of information and analysis on the global hepatitis B vaccines market.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Marketing

  3. Annual Election Period for Medicare Ends December 31...Read the original story

    Tuesday Dec 22 | MaineToday

    ... this plan include preventive care at no additional cost, including bone density scans, flu and pneumonia vaccines, Hepatitis B vaccines, mammograms and prostate screenings? Medicare Advantage plans offered through the Universal American family of ...

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    Related Topix: Medicare, Health, Health Insurance, Insurance, Universal American Financial, Medicine, Nursing

  4. Pharmacist authorized to give injectionsRead the original story w/Photo

    Friday Dec 18 | Quesnel Cariboo Observer

    ... Until the next H1N1 vaccines come in, she can give pneumococcal vaccines or travel vaccines, for diseases such as Hepatitis A and B. "It enhances the scope of practice for pharmacists," she says. "And it's to allow pharmacists to administer these ...

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    Related Topix: Retail, H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Influenza

  5. Beating the oddsRead the original story

    15 hrs ago | Boston.com

    ... is working on lots of things, but everyone is paying keen attention to the company's Telaprevir treatment for hepatitis C. Telaprevir appears to offer a dramatically better way to treat patients with a serious disease. The promise, in a nutshell: ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Curis, Healthcare Industry, Discovery Partners International, Cancer, Health, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

  6. Hanna to spend happier holiday waiting for surgeryRead the original story

    17 hrs ago | Express

    ... diagnosed with an advanced stage of hepatopulmonary syndrome, caused by liver cirrhosis due to probable autoimmune hepatitis. Thanks to the warm hearts of Trinbagonians, Hanna successfully collected $1.3 million needed to have the liver transplant. ...

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    Related Topix: Nursing, Medicine

  7. Christmas angels land at St. RoseRead the original story

    19 hrs ago | KTNV

    ... body and had a 1% chance of survival. She lived, but the blood transfusion that saved her life gave her HIV and Hepatitis C. While in the hospital in her early 20's, Stephanie tells us she had a vision of an angel. That's when she began making and ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Christmas

  8. Newsmakers of 2009: Tom WatkinsRead the original story

    21 hrs ago | Washington Business Journal

    ... Genome Sciences was ridiculed for its past spending habits and pitied for a questionable future that included a hepatitis C drug that needed to differentiate itself from its rivals and a lupus drug that had been all but mugged in the unfriendly ...

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    Related Topix: Biotech, Medicine, Human Genome Sciences, Healthcare Industry, Lupus

  9. 'Over four million suspected Hepatitis-B carriers in Pakistan'Read the original story

    23 hrs ago | The News

    Friday, December 25, 2009 By our correspondent Karachi An estimated 300 to 350 million people worldwide are carriers of the Hepatitis-B virus ; around four to five million people are suspected HBV carriers in Pakistan.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Health, World News, Karachi, Pakistan, Pakistan, Sind, Pakistan, Liver Cancer

  10. Post a CommentRead the original story

    Thursday | South Lyon Herald

    ... sports physicals, DOT physicals, urine drug testing and breath alcohol testing. Adult vaccinations like Tetanus, Hepatitis B, Pneumonia, MMR and Whooping cough. Herald: How did you get started in this business? Ali: Even as a young child I knew I ...

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    Related Topix: Brighton, MI, South Lyon, MI, Howell, MI, Hartland, MI

  11. He digs it: University of Florida student plans to savor college course work in AfricaRead the original story

    Thursday | Naplesnews.com Stories

    ... "It is a new environment with new viruses and new bacteria." Trevor has to be vaccinated for, among other things, hepatitis and yellow fever before heading to Africa. He said he does not have to worry much about malaria because the mosquitoes that ...

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    Related Topix: University of Florida, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science, Medicine, Health, Malaria

  12. Life with Hepatitis C for an 'It Girl'Read the original story

    Thursday | CNN

    ... of a privileged lifestyle, de Lisser has fought a lifelong battle with what is termed the "silent killer" -- Hepatitis C -- an infectious blood-borne virus that attacks and scars the liver. The virus is usually passed on through sexual contact or ...

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    Related Topix: Health, Liver Cancer

  13. Cannabis won't treat Hepatitis CRead the original story w/Photo

    Monday Dec 14 | The Daily Lobo

    ... for five conditions including cluster-type migraine headaches, Blepharospasm (eyelid twitch), Bipolar II Disorder, Hepatitis C and Ankylosing Spondylitis (an inflammatory disease of the spine and neck). Hepatitis C was not accepted for consideration ...

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Drugs, Santa Fe, NM

  14. Kazakhstan: Another Mass Infection ScandalRead the original story

    Thursday | Global Voices Online

    KZBlog reports that 150 children suffering from leukemia were infected with hepatitis C. This is not the first case when children get infected during blood transfusions in Kazakhstan.

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    Related Topix: Medicine, Health

  15. Life with Hepatitis C for London's teenage 'It Girl'Read the original story

    Thursday | CNN

    ... of a privileged lifestyle, de Lisser has fought a lifelong battle with what is termed the "silent killer" -- Hepatitis C -- an infectious blood-borne virus that attacks and scars the liver. The virus is usually passed on through sexual contact or ...

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    Related Topix: Health, Liver Cancer

  16. CCTV Economic Person of the YearRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday | People's Daily Online

    ... CCTV Economic Person of the Year are Wang Xin, Chairman of Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited and Lei Chuang, a Hepatitis B virus carrier who was the first in China to successfully obtain a health certificate that allows him to work in the catering ...

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    Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Jiangsu, China, Wuxi, China

  17. names Economic Person of the YearRead the original story w/Photo

    Thursday | CCTV

    ... CCTV Economic Person of the Year are Wang Xin, Chairman of Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited and Lei Chuang, a Hepatitis B virus carrier who was the first in China to successfully obtain a health certificate that allows him to work in the catering ...

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    Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Jiangsu, China, Wuxi, China

  18. Adults Ignoring Preventable Disease VaccinesRead the original story

    Wednesday | WBZ TV

    ... only 25% of those who qualify for the pneumonia vaccine get it. Only about a third of those who should get the Hepatitis B shot receive one. Friedman said, "they didn't know they need the vaccine, or their physician hadn't recommended it.' A CDC ...

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    Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Influenza

  19. Study: Tanning beds as deadly as arsenicRead the original story w/Photo

    Wednesday | KATU-TV Portland

    ... tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation are definite causes of cancer, alongside tobacco, the hepatitis B virus and chimney sweeping, among others. The research was published online in the medical journal Lancet Oncology on ...

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    Related Topix: Skin Cancer, Medicine, Health, Oncology

  20. Majority of national team coaches are not qualified: ReportRead the original story

    Wednesday | The News

    ... in question who forced her way in the team did not turn up for fresh trials,' the report reveals. A few cases of Hepatitis B & C and tuberculosis were also observed while undergoing the medical scrutiny of all the camp trainees. The committee also ...

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