Cleveland Clinic researchers have found that using lungs from donors who are considered high risk for certain infectious diseases compared to standard risk donors results in similar one-year survival for recipients. In addition, ...
Dec 5, 2019
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Hepatitis B is blood-borne virus that packs a punch. Worldwide, more than 1.3 billion people have been infected with hepatitis B, and 257 million people have developed a life-long infection. This includes 240,000 Australians, ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Organs from potential donors once rejected as being unsafe to transplant may not be as risky as once thought, new Australian research shows.
Oct 14, 2019
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(HealthDay)—All pregnant women should be screened early for hepatitis B, to prevent the viral infection from being passed to newborns.
Jul 23, 2019
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(HealthDay)—Two people may have contracted HIV after undergoing so-called "vampire facials" at a New Mexico spa, state health officials say.
May 2, 2019
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New research sheds light on how a hepatitis B viral protein stimulates the expansion of immune cells that impair antiviral responses, according to a study published April 18 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Haitao ...
Apr 18, 2019
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A coalition of researchers, health organisations and patient groups on Wednesday launched an ambitious campaign to cure hepatitis B, a disease that kills twice as many people as malaria but gets far less attention.
Apr 11, 2019
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(HealthDay)—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the approval of Dovato (dolutegravir and lamivudine), the first approved two-drug, fixed-dose, complete regimen for adults with HIV-1 who have not been previously ...
Apr 9, 2019
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European surveillance data show a 10 percent decrease in newly reported hepatitis C cases between 2016 and 2017. However, with more than 31,000 recorded cases in 2017, diagnoses remain at a high level in the European Union ...
Apr 3, 2019
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Introducing hepatitis B vaccine in preadolescents meant a decline in the disease incidence rate by 52 percent, according to a study in which the University of Barcelona (UB) took part. The study analysed the efficiency and ...
Mar 14, 2019
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