Hepatitis C

British researchers find strong link between hepatitis B, C and Parkinson's.

Hepatitis C care often doesn't require a specialist.

Effective hepatitis C drugs continue to be withheld from patients.

Even patients with cured hepatitis C from DAAs exhibited liver inflammation.

Hepatitis C mutations help the virus dodge vaccines.

Hepatitis C testing only increased from 12.3% to 13.8% among baby boomers.

See the pyramids, get hepatitis C treatment? Egypt promotes medical tourism.

Merck acquired uprifosbuvir after purchasing Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $3.85 billion.

HIV, hepatitis C coinfections weren't all that uncommon at a Bronx ER.

Published literature says the pre-seroconversion window period lasts around 45 days.

Hepatitis C screening based only on risk factors could miss infected people.

At CROI 2017, John W. Ward, MD, CDC, explained his team has been concentrating on one particular health effect: transmission of hepatitis C from mother-to-child at the time of birth. This is showing them increases in children now becoming infected with hepatitis C, so it’s a growing problem among young people and their children.

We've had a 150% increase in the number of new cases of hepatitis C in the country, and almost all of those cases are among persons less than 30 years of age," John W. Ward, MD, of CDC said.

"We have drugs now that used to take one pill to several pills a day for 2-3 months, you can cure 95% of people living with hepatitis C. The issue is getting those persons identified who are living with this silent infection."

Douglas Dieterich, MD, is concerned about repercussions of this report.

Patients with hepatitis C genotype 3 may face more liver problems.

Drug combo deemed effective for one of the rarest hepatitis C genotypes in the United States.

Researchers found that, at most, 4% of people with cirrhosis will develop HCC.

Treatment deemed effective for patients with hepatitis C and less than one year life expectancy.

Dual infection with hepatitis B and C results in a competition.

Renal failure complicates hepatitis C treatment, but there's options.

Liver failure could also be associated with the new direct-acting antivirals.

Three patients with porphyria cutanea tarda benefited from hepatitis C treatment.

Simeprevir-based regimens helped 90% of patients with hepatitis C achieve SVR.

Hepatitis C reinfection rates appear to be higher within certain populations.

Conflicts of interest may be compromising hepatitis C guideline trustworthiness.

Two new treatments have been fast-tracked in Europe as sales wane domestically.

Viral hepatitis can make some advanced unresectable HCC cases more complicated.

Hepatitis C replication is associated with neuroinflammatory conditions, which could lead to cognitive deficits.

Addiction-related behaviors from oxycodone could be due to the protein, RGS9-2.