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Liver transplants

NASH is fastest-growing reason for a liver transplant in United States

Keith Alcorn / 22 June 2020

Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the severe form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is now the most common reason for a liver transplant in women, older patients and people receiving Medicare insurance in the ...
Hepatitis C elimination

Hepatitis Elimination Spotlight: Hep C Free Allegheny on the Path to Elimination

HHS.gov / 09 June 2020
Screening policy

Universal screening reveals ‘striking’ HCV antibody prevalence in people born after 1965

Healio / 18 May 2020
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)

Racial inequalities in liver cancer deaths soared after launch of hepatitis C drugs

Florida Atlantic University / 18 May 2020
Epidemiology

Hep C on the Rise in Younger Adults

MedPageToday / 28 April 2020
Epidemiology

Rate of new US hepatitis C infections rises threefold in the past decade, new report finds

CNN / 28 April 2020
Liver transplants

Liver transplants and COVID-19

Keith Alcorn / 28 April 2020

Liver specialists in New York report a high frequency of severe COVID-19 cases in organ transplant recipients who became infected with SARS-CoV-2, while Italian specialists report that 15 of 17 patients who underwent ...
Pregnancy

New York State Has a High Rate of Hepatitis C Among Pregnant Women

Hep / 25 March 2020
Treatment for children

FDA OKs Gilead’s paediatric hep C drug

Pharma Times / 25 March 2020
NAFLD

HIV-positive people with fatty liver disease are at high risk for fibrosis

Liz Highleyman / 23 March 2020

People living with HIV who have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) often have liver fibrosis and are at risk for fibrosis worsening, researchers reported earlier this month at the Conference ...