HIV & AIDS
Ending social stigma: Families living with HIV, hep B and hep C
A group of UNSW Sydney researchers has released a groundbreaking report expected to improve the lives of people with bloodborne viruses.
Dec 2, 2020
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Hepatitis C
Health
Sexual health status of Australia's young Indigenous revealed
The results are in for the latest Australia-wide sexual health survey of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The GOANNA Survey was led by SAHMRI researchers in partnership with Aboriginal community organizations ...
Nov 17, 2020
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HIV & AIDS
Updated guidance for healthcare workers with HIV, hepatitis
In light of the low rate of transmission and advances in treatments for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America today released updated guidance for healthcare personnel living ...
Oct 14, 2020
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Medical research
A researcher reflects on progress fighting hepatitis C, and a path forward
When I began my medical career in Hong Kong in the early 1980s, I chose to focus on hepatitis B, in part because it was very common and because the hepatitis C virus had not yet been discovered. I witnessed the devastation ...
Oct 6, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hepatitis C: silent killer
A trio of researchers were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for their discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, paving the way for blood tests and new treatments.
Oct 5, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Trial finds drug safe and effective in treating hepatitis C during pregnancy
Critics of the new recommendation to screen all pregnant women for hepatitis C—a lifelong infection that attacks the liver—argue that it's wasteful to test for a disease among a population that can't be treated, but results ...
Jul 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hepatitis C cure means many liver failure patients have a better chance at transplantation and recovery
With the number of liver transplants performed at the University of Chicago Medicine on track to reach a 20-year high, a new study by the institution's researchers reinforces the growing popularity and safety of using livers ...
Jul 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New method developed for non-invasive risk assessment following hepatitis C recovery
The chronic viral inflammation of the liver that occurs in hepatitis C results in the formation of inflexible scar tissue in the form of fibrosis/cirrhosis of the liver. This impedes the flow of blood through the organ, with ...
Jul 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study finds HCV-positive livers safe for transplantation; Hepatitis C can be cured afterward
Patients who received a transplanted liver infected with hepatitis C and were later treated for the infection performed as well in recovery as transplant patients who received an organ free of infection, according to study ...
Jun 23, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why we need to learn to live with COVID-19
Measles infected people for 1,500 years, killing more than one million people annually during the 20th century alone before John Enders and Thomas Peebles isolated the virus in 1954 and developed a vaccine nine years later. ...
Jun 19, 2020
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