All the news Showing 7 of 27 articles from: EpidemiologyGet an RSS feed of these articles Show All news infohep newsEditors' picks from other sources Many people need hepatitis B treatment in the Gambia Liz Highleyman / 17 July 2013 About 8% of people tested through a community-based screening program in the Gambia have hepatitis B, and about 8% of these have advanced liver disease and meet European criteria for antiviral therapy, according ... Movement for global access to hepatitis C treatment building momentum Keith Alcorn / 09 May 2013 Access to hepatitis C treatment in low- and middle-income countries is being restricted by the high cost of interferon and a lack of commitment to treating the disease, leading to a growing ... Liver disease a major cause of illness and death across the EU: action needed to save lives Michael Carter / 10 April 2013 Liver disease is the cause of a considerable burden of illness across the European Union (EU), investigators report in The Journal of Hepatology. The authors calculate that 170,000 deaths each year are attributable ... Massive increase of hepatitis C incidence in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland Michael Carter / 30 August 2012 Incidence of hepatitis C virus infections has increased eighteen fold in HIV-positive gay men in Switzerland since 1998, investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Half of all infections in ... Hepatitis B is a major health issue for migrants in the US Michael Carter / 07 June 2012 Between 1.04 million and 1.61 million migrants now resident in the US have chronic hepatitis B infection, investigators report in the online edition of Hepatology. “The finding that as many as ... Chronic hepatitis B infection associated with twice the risk of liver-related death compared to hepatitis C Michael Carter / 27 April 2012 The risk of death due to liver disease is twice as high for patients with chronic hepatitis B infection compared to individuals with chronic hepatitis C, US researchers report in the online edition ... Hepatitis C surpasses HIV as a cause of death in the US Michael Carter / 21 February 2012 Deaths in the US due to hepatitis C now exceed those caused by HIV, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study showed that there is a ... ← Prev123Next → 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 Transfusion and medical procedures Injecting drug use Mother to child Sexual transmission Non-medical blood transfer HBV vaccination Epidemiology Screening and testing policy Health services, policy and advocacy Social issues Conference news Email bulletin archive