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Hepatitis C News

Gay Men Have Higher Liver-Related Mortality From HBV Than HCV In a population of men who have sex with men chronic hepatitis B virus led to twice as many liver-related deaths as chronic hepatitis C virus.
Reuters Health Information, May 17, 2012
Four Bad Actors Cause Most Infection-Related Cancer And they are all preventable in some way.
Medscape Medical News, May 8, 2012

EASL New Drugs Require New Terms for HCV Virologic Response
Medscape Medical News, May 8, 2012
HCV Raises Risk of Premature Death in AIDS Patients
Reuters Health Information, May 7, 2012
EASL Two Oral Drugs Clear HCV Without Interferon
Medscape Medical News, May 2, 2012
EASL Twelve Weeks of GS-7977 Eliminates HCV as Well as 24 Weeks
Medscape Medical News, May 2, 2012

Hepatitis C Perspectives

When Will We Have Interferon-Free Treatment for Hepatitis C? A reader asks how close we are to offering more effective and better tolerated regimens to patients with hepatitis C virus.
Medscape Gastroenterology, February 9, 2012
A 'Newer' Era of HCV Therapy Begins? Promising abstracts at The Liver Meeting this year portend well for HCV treatment in the near future.
Medscape Gastroenterology, December 16, 2011

From the Upper GI to the Lower GI: A Recap of ACG 2011
Medscape Gastroenterology, November 18, 2011
John Bartlett's Game Changers in Infectious Disease: 2011
Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 26, 2011
Preview: Hot Topics of Clinical Interest at IDSA 2011
Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 20, 2011
Predicting Outcomes in Hep C Vasculitis
Medscape Rheumatology, July 19, 2011

Journals

Transient Elastography in Patients With Chronic HBV and HCV
Liver International, May 17, 2012
Neuropsychological Tools in Hepatology for the Clinician
Journal of Viral Hepatitis, May 17, 2012
Boceprevir for the Treatment of Chronic HCV Infection
Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, May 16, 2012
Association of HCV With Insulin Resistance and Type 2 DM
Journal of Viral Hepatitis, May 14, 2012
Risk of MI Associated With Chronic HCV
Journal of Viral Hepatitis, May 10, 2012

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