Hepatitis C News

• New CDC Guidance for Healthcare Personnel Exposed to HCV New recommendations from the CDC offer guidance for postexposure testing and clinical management of healthcare personnel exposed to hepatitis C virus.
  Medscape Medical News, July 23, 2020
• HIV Infection May Impact Sensitivity of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for HCV Hepatitis C virus rapid diagnostic tests had variable sensitivity in patients with HIV, in a multinational retrospective study.
  Reuters Health Information, July 13, 2020
• COVID-19 Update: Shelter-in-Place, Hyperglycemia Predicts Death The coronavirus stories Medscape's editors around the globe think you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, July 13, 2020
• COVID 2020 Hep C Sofosbuvir/Daclatasvir Combo Promising for COVID-19 Data are preliminary, but early evidence shows that the combination of two direct-acting antivirals can speed time to recovery in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, July 13, 2020
• Analysis: How A COVID-19 Vaccine Could Cost Americans Dearly The United States is the only developed nation unable to balance cost, efficacy and social good in setting prices.
  Kaiser Health News, July 08, 2020
• Older Hep C Patients May Remain at Risk for HCC Even After Viral Clearance Chronic hepatitis C patients ages 75-84 remained at high risk of liver cancer even after direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) cleared the virus, according to an observational study in Japan.
  Reuters Health Information, July 06, 2020
• Adjuvanted Viral-Vectored Vaccine Promising Against Hepatitis C in Early Trial An anti-hepatitis C adjuvanted viral-vectored vaccine stimulated strong antiviral responses from T cells and was safe in a phase I trial.
  Reuters Health Information, June 24, 2020
• For Experts Who Study Coronaviruses, a Grim Vindication They warned that the next great pandemic would be a coronavirus, but research funding went to studying other threats.
  Undark, June 09, 2020
• Onc Daily: Olaparib in Ovarian Cancer, Smoking and Lung Cancer These are the most important oncology stories you need to know about today.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2020
• One Factor Contributing to Increase in US Liver Cancer Deaths? Among African Americans, excess death rates from liver cancer relative to white peers became worse after antihepatitis drugs were introduced.
  Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2020
• How Do Genes Affect How Severe COVID-19 Will Be? What makes one healthy young adult contract the coronavirus and fight for life on a ventilator while another gets through the infection almost symptom-free? The answers could be written in your genes.
  WebMD Health News, May 12, 2020
• HCV-Exposed, Uninfected Infants Show B-Cell Changes Many uninfected babies born to mothers with chronic hepatitis C virus infection may have already fought off the virus themselves, new research suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 28, 2020
• Hepatitis C Cases Rising in Young Adults New acute and chronic hepatitis C cases increased significantly between 2009 and 2018, especially in people ages 20 to 39, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report.
  Reuters Health Information, April 15, 2020
• Liver Cancer Increase Driven Mainly by NASH in Men Over 60 The global increase in liver cancer has been driven mainly by an increase in fatty liver disease in men over 60 in developed countries, suggests a new analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, March 23, 2020
• Liver Cancer Risk Reduced by Aspirin in Chronic Viral Hepatitis The risk of liver cancer was reduced by 31% compared with no aspirin use, and liver-related mortality dropped by 27%, as long as aspirin use continued.
  Medscape Medical News, March 13, 2020
• USPSTF Recommends HCV Screening for All US Adults Ages 18-79 The task force's previous guidance recommended screening adults born between 1945 and 1965, but HCV infections have grown almost fourfold in a decade, many of them in younger people.
  Medscape Medical News, March 02, 2020
• Few Perinatally Exposed Infants Receive Recommended Hep C Testing Fewer than a quarter of infants exposed perinatally to hepatitis C virus (HCV) undergo testing for the virus, according to a database study.
  Reuters Health Information, February 14, 2020
• Alert FDA Approves Weekly Contraceptive Patch Twirla Twirla is a levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol transdermal contraceptive option for women with a BMI <30 kg/m2 for whom a combined hormonal contraceptive is appropriate.
  FDA Approvals, February 18, 2020
• Injected Heroin Use Still High in U.S., May Explain HCV Infection Rate Heroin use by injection has leveled off in recent years but had been rising steadily for more than a decade, a study finds.
  Reuters Health Information, February 12, 2020
• Infections Account for 13% of All Cancer Cases Infectious pathogens are responsible for about 2 million cases of cancer worldwide, but there is great variation among geographic regions.
  Medscape Medical News, January 21, 2020