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 ...
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(HealthDay)—Updated recommendations for reducing transmission of HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) through transplantation include universal solid organ donor nucleic acid testing, according to research ...
Jun 30, 2020
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NIH investigators and colleagues have discovered that when the immune system first responds to infectious agents such as viruses or bacteria, a natural brake on the response prevents overactivation. Their new study in mBio ...
Jun 23, 2020
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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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By discovering a trick the hepatitis C virus uses to evade the immune system, scientists have identified a new antiviral defense system that could be used to treat many virus infections, according to new research published ...
Jun 16, 2020
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Perhaps the most important question now about COVID-19 is the degree to which a prior infection protects from a second infection by the new coronavirus. This affects vaccine development and herd immunity and is something ...
Jun 12, 2020
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The approach used to design a promising vaccine against hepatitis C could be the key to stopping the virus that causes COVID-19 as well, according to University of Alberta virologist Michael Houghton.
May 14, 2020
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In the United States, hepatocellular or liver cancer deaths have doubled since 1979. Hepatitis C virus is the leading cause of liver cancer. Around 1998, lifesaving drugs to treat hepatitis C—prohibitively expensive for ...
Apr 30, 2020
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University of Liverpool researchers have published new estimates of the global burden of hepatitis D, and are calling for more efforts to tackle the 'forgotten' virus.
Apr 30, 2020
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If a virus penetrates a cell, the immune system reacts immediately and produces the signaling protein interferon. This protein activates hundreds of highly specialized defence mechanisms in all surrounding cells, which can ...
Apr 24, 2020
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