India has granted a patent to US pharmaceutical giant Gilead for a blockbuster Hepatitis C drug, in a U-turn activists said could potentially stop affordable copies reaching millions of people in other countries.
May 10, 2016
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Advanced hepatitis C patients with chronic liver disease may benefit from drinking coffee during treatment, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association ...
Jun 7, 2011
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Around 1.5 million people worldwide become infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) every year. A research team led by the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut has identified a previously unknown pathway for the egress of hepatitis B virus ...
Nov 3, 2022
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In hepatic steatosis, hepatocytes "die," resulting in liver damage. Severe steatosis increases hepatocellular deaths, thus aggravating liver damage. The mechanism is unclear. Using mice, we show that mild steatosis causes ...
Feb 15, 2023
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The healthy human intestine is colonized with over 100 trillion beneficial, or commensal, bacteria of many different species. In healthy people, these bacteria are limited to the intestinal tissues and have a number of helpful ...
Jun 6, 2012
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A rapid, sensitive, and accurate method to detect drug resistant hepatitis C virus (HCV) mutants has been developed. Researchers at Hiroshima University established a system to rapidly and accurately measure the presence ...
Jun 29, 2015
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Hepatitis B and C kill more than 20,000 people every year in the United States. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents a strategy to eliminate these diseases as serious public ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Infectious disease experts have long thought that children, teenagers and young adults who are chronically infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) lack the immune cells needed to fight this pathogen. As such, physicians ...
Feb 27, 2013
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Affecting hundreds of millions of people, chronic hepatitis B is a widespread global health problem for which there is as yet no cure. In a preclinical study involving the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Heidelberg ...
Aug 4, 2023
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Our livers can fight back against the immune system -- reducing organ rejection but also making us more susceptible to liver disease.
Sep 19, 2011
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