Hepatitis News

Aim To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Entecavir plus adefovir for chronic hepatitis B patients after multiple nucleos ide analogue failure treatment.

Health screening tests greatly impact the public's health because they involve testing of asymptomatic populations for specific diseases or health conditions for which specific interventions may alter disease progression before appearance of clinical signs and symptoms.

The GMP certificate covers Sinovac Beijing's vaccines commercialized in and approved for stockpiling, inclusive of hepatitis A vaccine , inactivated; hepatitis A and B combined vaccine; influenza vaccine , inactivated; pandemic influenza vaccine ; pandemic influenza vaccine ; H1N1 influenza A vaccine The GMP certificate is valid for five years ... (more)

Many clinicians and hepatitis B virus -infected pregnant women prefer elective caesarean section to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HBV, since some studies found higher transmission of HBV in infants born by vaginal delivery than by cesarean section.

No one really knows how many herbs there are in the world but we know it has to be hundreds of thousands of species.

The Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research announced today that it has finalized a funding agreement with BioFront Technologies, producers of diagnostic kits and reagents that detect viral and allergenic proteins for food safety and infectious disease markets.

After devoting 15 years of his career on Hepatitis C research, Dr. Eric Lawitz of the Texas Liver Institute reports a breakthrough drug with a 90 percent cure rate and no side effects.

The Oklahoma State Department of Health and Tulsa Health Department announced the sixth round of test results from patients of W. Scott Harrington's dental surgical practice and found no new positives.

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.

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)

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.

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

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)

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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)