Search Results for: hepatitis C virus

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017

Gilead Sciences Awards Grant to Promote Best Practices for HCV, HBV and HIV Screening

Erie County Medical Center (ECMC) has been awarded $351,289 by Gilead Sciences to develop a model program that embodies best practices in the screening of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis ... Read more

December 1, 2016December 1, 2016

HBV Infection Results When Viral Immunosuppression Beats Innate Immune Response

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A study in tree shrews — a small mammal that also gets infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) — gave researchers a deeper understanding of the innate immune response processes ... Read more

November 10, 2016November 10, 2016

FDA Places Hold on Arrowhead’s Phase 2 HBV Clinical Trial

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) placed a hold on Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals‘ Heparc-2004 Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating ARC-520, the company’s investigational medicine for the treatment of chronic hepatitis ... Read more

October 11, 2016October 11, 2016

New Biomarker May Identify Patients at Risk for Hep B Recurrence During Immunosuppressive Therapy

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People who have an antigen called hepatitis B core-related antigen (HBcrAg) in their blood are nearly three times as likely to experience hepatitis B (HBV) recurrence when undergoing immunosuppressive therapy ... Read more

March 17, 2016March 17, 2016

Medicaid’s Suppressing of Drug Abuse-Related Claims Impacts Reporting of Hep C and HIV Rates

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Researchers at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital examined the impact of the recent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy of suppressing substance abuse-related claims on diagnostic rates for conditions unrelated to substance ... Read more

November 12, 2015November 12, 2015

HBV Infection May Augment a Newborn’s Immune System

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A recent study entitled “Trained immunity in newborn infants of HBV-infected mothers” revealed that newborns’ exposure to hepatitis B virus (HBV) while in the womb is not associated with an immune tolerance but rather ... Read more

July 30, 2015July 31, 2015

Patients Co-Infected With HCV and HIV Receive More Effective Treatments

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Results from a recently released study show that HIV and Hepatitis-C virus (HCV) co-infected patients who had not previously been treated for hepatitis C, but received 12 weeks of treatment ... Read more

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015

New Drug Shows Promise In Treating Chronic HCV Patients With Liver Transplant And Advanced Liver Disease

Hepatitis C, News

Hepatitis C is one of the worst forms of liver diseases affecting people in the world today — around 3.2 million have HCV in the United States alone. Spread mostly from ... Read more

April 14, 2015April 14, 2015

Statin Therapy Benefits Veterans with HCV

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A study of over 3,000 eligible subjects in the Electronically Retrieved Cohort of Hepatitis C Viral (HCV) Infected Veterans (ERCHIVES) identified that statin use may be beneficial to sustained virologic ... Read more

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015

Babies Whose Moms Have HBV Develop More Mature Immune Systems

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A study led by scientists at Singapore’s Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke-NUS) has shown that Hepatitis B Virus Infection (HBV) exposure increases the maturation of infants’ immune systems, potentially providing ... Read more