All the news Showing 10 of 1,614 articles from: Hepatitis CGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources UK report urges re-think on hepatitis C reinfection Keith Alcorn / 11 April 2022 Progress towards the elimination of hepatitis C is being undermined by a lack of attention to the harm reduction needs of people cured of hepatitis C in the United Kingdom, as ... Accessible care achieves higher hepatitis C cure rate in people who inject drugs Keith Alcorn / 28 March 2022 Hepatitis C care located within a needle and syringe programme in New York achieved a three times higher cure rate than referral to a patient navigator and linkage to medical care at ... COVID-19 pandemic led to a 30% drop in new hepatitis C treatments in the United States Keith Alcorn / 22 March 2022 Hepatitis C testing and treatment initiations in the United States dropped by 30% at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and treatment initiations did not recover to previous levels during ... Hepatitis C prevalence down by 40% since 2015 in England Keith Alcorn / 11 March 2022 The prevalence of hepatitis C in England fell by almost 40% between 2015 and 2020 and deaths due to the virus fell by 35% in the same period, the UK Health Security Agency ... Pandemic-era tests could help efforts to eliminate hepatitis C. New York Times / 09 March 2022 Metabolic disorders cause liver damage in people with HIV more often than viral hepatitis in lower-income countries Keith Alcorn / 01 March 2022 Liver fibrosis in people with HIV in low- and middle-income countries was more often attributable to metabolic disorders than viral hepatitis, a six-country comparative study has found.The findings, presented last ... Universal hepatitis C screening in pregnancy improves case detection Keith Alcorn / 23 February 2022 Implementing universal testing for hepatitis C during pregnancy improved case detection 7.5-fold compared to the previous regime of risk-based screening, a research group from the University of Pittsburgh reported last week at the ... New cases of hepatitis C declining in people with HIV as access to treatment broadens Keith Alcorn / 21 February 2022 The availability of direct-acting antivirals has led to a 50% reduction in new cases of hepatitis among people with HIV in some high-income settings, a six-country study presented this week ... Antihistamine use halved the risk of liver cancer in people with viral hepatitis Keith Alcorn / 08 February 2022 Antihistamines used for relief of allergies and hay fever halved the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC; liver cancer) in people with viral hepatitis during a ten-year follow-up period, a review of ... Prioritise harm reduction services to prevent hepatitis C re-infection, Scottish study finds Keith Alcorn / 24 January 2022 Limiting re-infection with hepatitis C in people who use drugs is most likely to be achieved by intensifying provision of sterile injecting equipment for people using needle and syringe programmes and increasing ... ← Prev12345...162Next → Other pages in this section Latest news All the news Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Hepatitis C Transmission and prevention Diagnosis and monitoring Disease course and symptoms HCV and coinfections Living with HCV Treatment issues Side effects Therapies Liver transplants 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