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Federal authorities say a former surgery technician may have exposed thousands of Colorado patients to hepatitis C when she swapped her own dirty syringes for ones filled with a powerful narcotic.

Kristen Diane Parker faces Federal criminal charges for allegedly making the swaps while working at Audobon Ambulatory Surgery Center in Colorado Springs and Rose Medical Center in Denver.

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: One-dose hepatitis A vaccination coverage among U.S. infants ages 24 months to 35 months increased from 26.3 percent in 2006 to 47.4 percent in 2007, says a federal government study released Thursday.

Surgery patients throughout Denver may be at risk for contracting the incurable virus hepatitis C, and the person responsible may be a former nurse.

An attorney for veterans potentially exposed to HIV and other infections by colonoscopies at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals said his clients are waiting to hear if they will be compensated for mistakes that led to congressional hearings and new VA spending on patient safety.

Today, during a Westminster Hall debate on the Archer Inquiry into the infection of nearly 5,000 haemophiliacs with HIV and Hepatitis C through NHS blood products, Jenny Willott, Liberal Democrat MP for Cardiff Central, revealed evidence to show that the department's reasons for offering fair compensation to those infected is inaccurate and ...

A university graduate in the Shenzhen special economic zone, Guangdong province, has filed a lawsuit against a bank that turned him down because he has the hepatitis B virus.

A doctor involved in one of the largest hepatitis C scares in the country will be getting his medical license back.

A judge in Las Vegas has rejected an effort by lawyers for the doctor at the center of a hepatitis outbreak to move the first 22 civil trials against him to Carson City.

A government advisory panel voted Tuesday to recommend eliminating prescription drugs that combine acetaminophen with narcotics -- such as Vicodin and Percocet -- because of their risk for overdose and for severe liver injury.

Main Category: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 30 Jun 2009 Amarillo Biosciences, Inc.

Steve Allain has his answer, and ita s not the one he would have preferred. Allain is the 54-year-old Niles man who, in a Tribune story last month, acknowledged he uses marijuana to help him deal with Crohna s disease, hepatitis C and acute depression.

Investors scouting for depressed stocks that could spring positive surprises are turning to the biotechnology sector, which didn't significantly participate in the market's frenzied three-month rally.

At least 56 people in two adjacent villages in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province were diagnosed with the infection of hepatitis C virus, health authorities said.

Abstract WU polyomavirus was detected in 10 of 121 HIV-positive plasma specimens, 0 of 120 HIV-negative serum specimens, and 2 of 79 hepatitis C virus positive serum specimens.

The international community recognized the importance of liver disease on May 19, World Hepatitis Day.

Too many Americans with HIV are diagnosed late in the course of their disease and miss out on the optimal benefit of effective treatments, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.

Main Category: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Also Included In: Clinical Trials / Drug Trials ; Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Article Date: 25 Jun 2009 - 2:00 PDT Conatus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Dear Dr. Gott: I'm a 74-year-old female and have recently contracted hepatitis C. I'm too old for interferon or a transplant.

Millions of Americans have the hepatitis C virus , and many of them don't know it.