All the news Showing 9 of 39 articles from: SpainGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Treatment issues Telaprevir twice-daily works as well as every eight hours, safe for hepatitis C patients with cirrhosis Liz Highleyman / 23 November 2012 The hepatitis C protease inhibitor telaprevir (Incivo or Incivek) taken twice daily with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin is as likely to produce sustained virological suppression as the approved three-times-daily schedule, with similar safety ... Hepatitis C Dramatic increase in incidence of liver cancer in HIV-positive people with viral hepatitis Michael Carter / 29 October 2012 Incidence of liver cancer among people with HIV has increased dramatically over the past decade, Spanish investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. All the cases involved individuals with ... HIV Bacterial translocation is associated with more severe liver fibrosis in HIV/hepatitis C-co-infected people Michael Carter / 13 September 2012 The presence of intestinal bacteria in blood (bacterial translocation) is associated with more severe liver disease in people who are co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C virus, Spanish investigators report in the ... Treatment issues Hepatitis C subtype-1b and carriage of IL28B gene associated with improved treatment responses in HIV-co-infected patients Michael Carter / 01 March 2012 Hepatitis C treatment responses in patients co-infected with HIV are better in patients infected with hepatitis C subtype-1b than 1a, according to Spanish research published in the online edition of the ... HBV vaccination Studies from US and Spain show that hepatitis vaccination programmes not reaching target populations Michael Carter / 23 January 2012 The majority of US adults at risk of hepatitis B remain unvaccinated against the potentially life-threatening infection of hepatitis, according to research published in advance of print in the online edition of ... Treatment issues People on methadone can succeed on hepatitis C treatment Liz Highleyman / 18 October 2011 Opiate users on methadone maintenance therapy can be successfully treated for chronic hepatitis C and can achieve outcomes similar to those of people not on methadone, according to data presented at the ... Hepatitis C Gene associated with increased risk of cirrhosis for HIV/HCV-co-infected patients Michael Carter / 24 May 2011 A genetic mutation is associated with an increased risk of cirrhosis for patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C, according to Spanish research published in the June 1st edition of the Journal ... Treatment issues Genetic variation associated with response to hepatitis C therapy in HIV co-infected patients Michael Carter / 05 May 2011 The presence of a genetic variation in the IL28B gene is associated with better response rates to hepatitis C therapy in patients who are co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C, Spanish investigators ... Hepatitis C Good survival rates for HIV/HCV-coinfected patients with compensated cirrhosis Michael Carter / 14 March 2011 Medium-term survival rates in patients co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C who have compensated cirrhosis are good and comparable to those seen in hepatitis C-mono-infected individuals, Spanish investigators report in the online edition ... ← Prev1234Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Hepatitis D Hepatitis E Coronavirus NAFLD Treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma Transmission, epidemiology and prevention Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive