Generating doctor awareness on Hepatitis C treatment can halve costs supriya kashyap kashyap29 March 2016 8:55 AM ISTNew York : The cost of treating Hepatitis C virus (HCV) could be reduced by half if doctors are trained to predict when a patient can safely stop...
Hepatitis C ups risk of head and neck cancers supriya kashyap kashyap15 April 2016 2:28 PM ISTNew York : Individuals infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) may be prone to certain head and neck cancers, a new study has found, pressing the need...
Antiviral Therapies Give Hepatitis C Cirrhosis Patients Similar Life Expectancy as General Population supriya kashyap kashyap5 May 2016 9:28 AM ISTThe survival rate of patients with hepatitis C virus-related cirrhosis who respond well to antiviral therapies equals that of the general population,...
Newer medications can cure HCV infections, study suggests supriya kashyap kashyap11 March 2017 10:10 AM ISTA new analysis reveals a dramatic transformation in the care of patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as more effective and tolerable...
ENDURANCE-3 Study : Once daily treatment effective in hepatitis C subgroup supriya kashyap kashyap22 April 2017 2:38 PM ISTStudy results presented demonstrate that the oral, once-daily treatment regimen of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir (G/P) resulted in 95% sustained virologic...
New Canadian guideline: No screening for hepatitis C in adults not at increased risk supriya kashyap kashyap24 April 2017 12:30 PM ISTThe Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommends against screening for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) in adults at low risk in a...
A transplant and a cure: Penn team eradicates hepatitis C in 10 patients supriya kashyap kashyap5 May 2017 10:59 AM ISTTen patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) following lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased donors who were...
BEWARE: Hepatitis C Infection most common in North India, points out SRL Diagnostics Study Anjali Nimesh Nimesh28 July 2017 4:33 PM ISTNew Delhi : An analysis done by SRL Diagnostics, the leading diagnostic chain in India on Viral Hepatitis (A, B, C, E) testing done in its...
Direct‐Acting Antiviral Therapy Cuts Liver Cancer Risk By 71% Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli28 Oct 2017 7:25 PM ISTA new study presented this week at The Liver Meeting — held by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases — found that eradication of...
New Drug effective against resistant hepatitis C found Anjali Nimesh Nimesh7 Dec 2017 7:20 PM ISTHepatitis C is caused by a highly infectious virus affecting millions across the globe and can lead to a variety of liver ailments. While the...
How risky is to transplant hepatitis C-infected liver in uninfected patient ? Anjali Nimesh Nimesh22 Dec 2017 7:10 PM ISTA modeling study by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators finds that the availability of directly-acting antiviral (DAA) drugs to treat...
Patient's psoriasis improves with initiation of hepatitis C therapy Anjali Nimesh Nimesh16 Jan 2018 7:25 PM ISTResearchers report the first case of a patient whose psoriasis improved when therapy for his hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection was initiated. Findings...
