Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Inflammatory bowel disease biologic blunts immune response to COVID-19
Careful monitoring of patients treated with infliximab needed after COVID jab
Mar 22, 2021
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News tagged with hepatitis
Medical research
Biophotonic therapy eliminates bacteria and viruses from organs before transplantation
A new technique for the decontamination of organs before transplantation using ultraviolet and red light irradiation has been developed by Brazilian and Canadian researchers and is described in an article titled "Inactivating ...
Apr 12, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Reducing unnecessary medication for hepatitis B patients
Not all chronic hepatitis B (HBV) patients require lifelong treatment; but the risks of blindly withdrawing treatment can be severe. However, there's little consensus on which patients can be safely discontinued from treatment, ...
Nov 30, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Liver cancer patients can be treated for Hep C infection
A large, multi-center study refutes earlier suggestions that antiviral drugs for treating hepatitis C may lead to a higher recurrence of liver cancer.
Jan 18, 2019
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Medications
What's the price of a hepatitis C cure?
Sofosbuvir is one of a number of new direct-acting antiviral drugs revolutionising the care of people living with hepatitis C. Combinations of two or three hepatitis C virus direct-acting antiviral drugs taken for 8-24 weeks ...
Aug 4, 2016
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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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Medical economics
Medicare beneficiaries without low-income subsidies were less likely to fill important prescriptions, new study finds
Medicare Part D beneficiaries who did not receive federal subsidies to lower their out-of-pocket costs were nearly twice as likely as others to not fill prescriptions for serious health conditions like cancer or hepatitis ...
Apr 4, 2022
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Medical research
Virus co-opts immune protein to avoid antiviral defences
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How hepatitis C hides in the body
The Hepatitis C (HCV) virus is a sly enemy to have in one's body. Not only does it manage to make itself invisible to the immune system by breaking down communication between the immune cells, it also builds secret virus ...
Oct 13, 2017
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Medical research
2 win medicine Nobel for showing how we react to heat, touch
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease.
Oct 4, 2021
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